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Two hundred and fourteen years ago, the devil himself passed through Tennessee. Or so believed the early settlers and terrified townsfolk who heard the whispers, read the reports, saw the

Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 18:30 The writings of Robert M. Coates are unknown to the average reader these days. The last time I taught from a high school anthology of literature that contained one of his stories was in 1977 — a harrowing tale about a middle-aged married couple harassed by a gang of teenage thugs. In my years since, as an adjunct professor teaching college English courses, I have never seen an anthology that featured any of Coates’s work. A few years back, his “Hour After...