The Thrill Book, Vol. 1, No. 3

This issue of The Thrill Book contains "The Hank of Yarn" by Parley Poore Sheehan, a supernatural story centered on a mountain man named Winder. After drinking with the Logan boys at the Crossroads, Winder passes through Peddler's Hollow—allegedly haunted since a peddler's murder decades prior—and experiences a profound spiritual transformation. He emerges sobered, physically rejuvenated, and filled with moral clarity about his wasted life of whiskey-making and dissipation. Returning home to find his wife, sister, and a local "yarb" doctor awaiting his return with yarn for knitting his sick son Henry's jacket, Winder realizes he forgot the errand. Despite the late hour, he rushes back toward the Crossroads, accompanied by his hound Buck, to retrieve it—though the store has already closed for the night. The narrative blends Appalachian mountain dialect with themes of redemption and supernatural intervention.