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Ghostland : an American history in haunted places / Colin Dickey.
Record details
- ISBN: 1101980192
- ISBN: 9781101980194
- Physical Description: xiii, 320 pages
- Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 36.00 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Haunted places > United States. Ghosts > United States. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 133.10973 Dic | 31681020023727 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Explores some of the United States' most infamously haunted places, including old mansions and hotels, abandoned prisons, empty hospitals, and other locations, and reveals the repressed history they represent. - Baker & Taylor
Takes readers on a road trip through some of the United States' most infamously haunted placesùand deep into the dark side of American history. Tour. - Penguin Putnam
One of NPR's Great Reads of 2016
âA lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories… absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.ââThe 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 placesâand 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.  Â
    With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the livingâhow 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 madeâand why those changes are madeâDickey 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.
