Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

New York TimesÂ BestsellerÂ â€¢Â One of NPRâ€™s Great Reads of 2016

â€œA lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting storiesâ€¦absorbingâ€¦[and] intellectually intriguing.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review

From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the countryâ€™s most infamously haunted placesâ€”and deep into the dark side of our history.

Colin Dickey is on the trail of Americaâ€™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 â€œzombie homes,â€ 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 â€œthe most haunted mansion in America,â€ or â€œthe most haunted prisonâ€; 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 livingâ€”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 madeâ€”and why those changes are madeâ€”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 weâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781101980200
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2017-10-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101980200

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781101980200
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2017-10-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101980200

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

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