There are, so the saying goes, three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.

Bil Lepp will display his mastery of at least two of the three when he visits West Virginia University as part of annual Mountaineer Week activities.

The five-time winner of the West Virginia Liars Contest will be spinning a few yarns Saturday, Nov. 8, in the Mountainlair Gluck Theatre during the annual fiddle contest.

“Hes very, very entertaining,”said Sonja Wilson, Mountaineer Week coordinator.”He makes a lasting impression on the audience. He revives a lost art.”

Lepp will open for the contest at 7 p.m., telling three tales before the fiddlers take the stage. During the contest intermission, he will again entertain the audience with another tale of lies and suspense. He will also be selling and autographing copies of his book Inept: Impaired: Overwhelmed.

“His stories are about West Virginia and relate to people who live in West Virginia and Appalachia,”Wilson said.

Lepp has been telling tales for almost a decade and is regularly featured at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn., and the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington, D.C. He has written two books and conducts writing and storytelling workshops.

For more information about Lepp, visit his Web site athttp://www.buck-dog.com.

Lepp is among many performers appearing during Mountaineer Week. A detailed schedule of events is available on the Web at http://www.wvu.edu/mountaineer_week/scheduleofevents.html .

The Southeast Tourism Society included Mountaineer Week among its top 20 events for October, November and December. The society, which covers 11 states from West Virginia to Florida, has been touting travel to the region since 1983 and publishing its top 20 events since 1985.