The book we're reading for July is Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles Waddell Chesnutt, a Penguin Classics paperback published in 2000. It includes two books by Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman and The Wife of His Youth. There are also two related magazine stories, "Dave's Neckliss" and "Baxter's Procrustes." A Dover book called Tales of Conjure and the Color Line has fewer stories, but it does contain the essential ones. The public library has several books that contain the conjure stories. All of the stories are also available online. What follows is a list of the stories in Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line, with links to their online sources:

• "The Goophered Grapevine"
• "Po' Sandy"
• "Mars Jeems's Nightmare"
• "The Conjurer's Revenge"
• "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny"
• "The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt"
• "Hot-Foot Hannibal"
• "Dave's Neckliss"
• "The Wife of His Youth" After you read, scroll up to see the frontispiece.
• "Her Virginia Mammy"
• "The Sheriff's Children"
• "A Matter of Principle"
• "Cicely's Dream"
• "The Passing of Grandison"
• "Uncle Wellington's Wives"
• "The Bouquet"
• "The Web of Circumstance"
• "Baxter's Procrustes"