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One of NPR's Great Reads of 2016 "A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories... absorbing... and] intellectually intriguing."-- The New York Times Book Review An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places -- and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie homes," Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as "the most haunted mansion in America," or "the most haunted prison"; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living -- how do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made -- and why those changes are made -- Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone, crimes left unsolved. Spellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers the past we're most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101980192
ISBN-13
9781101980194
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219694429

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Book Title
Ghostland : an American History in Haunted Places
Author
Colin Dickey
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Death & Dying, Supernatural, United States / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Bf1472.U6d53 2016
Reviews
"You wouldn't expect to read about brothels, human psychology, Victorian architecture, even a suburban Toys R' Us, and come out the other side with an entirely different understanding and appreciation for ghosts. But Colin Dickey's writing is just that good. Ghostland is strange and un-settling in the best possible way."-- Caitlin Doughty, author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes "Always fascinating, sometimes horrifying. Ghostland is a remarkable portrait of the ways that the walking dead--or our beliefs in them--wander through, and shape, American history."-- Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook "In his fantastic new book, Ghostland , Dickey hits on all the fascinating things you could want to know about our country's haunted history. I came away from Ghostland wishing my own house was haunted because he makes it seem so interesting. Colin Dickey is a mad genius, and reading one of his books is as close to a look at his brilliant brain as we will get without use of a bone saw."-- Liberty Hardy, Book Riot contributing editor "Fascinating... a measured assessment of phenomena more often exploited for sensationalism." -- Publishers Weekly , Praise for Colin Dickey's previous books: "[Dickey] explores [a] macabre episode of history armed with formidable research skills and the ability to tell his story with the gusto it deserves."-- Minneapolis Star Tribune "If only we could skip the textbooks and share something that's all kinds of real world creepy and awesome like Colin Dickey's Cranioklepty.... Teens will eat this stuff up, however, and if they happen to be fans of author Paul Collins, then they're really going to feel lucky."-- Bookslut
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-044006
Intended Audience
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