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* Read ^ Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Ghostland: An American History in 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,
| Title | : | Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.33 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101980192 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
By exposing historical inaccuracies and sociological calumny, the work treats readers to a better understanding of the socioeconomic and political milieu in which these myths gained acceptance, ultimately providing a richer, more nuanced narrative. 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
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, Gh
. As a writer, speaker, and academic, he has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world'
Danno said More Interesting than Haunting. "Ghostland" is a collection of essays by Colin Dickey that are part-travelogue and part-history. In each chapter of the book, Dickey visits someplace that has the reputation of being haunted, provides some local color, and then digs into the historical facts related to the circumstances of the alleged haunting. The historical record. What ghosts tell us about our past This book is emphatically not the sort of Fate Magazine-esque lurid collection of ghost stories designed to scare readers. Dickey's premise is that ghost stories can be key to understanding a place, that they connect the present with the past and reveal aspects of history not commemorated in the official record, but unforgotten none. "A Serious Look at a Subject Most Scoff At" according to Emory Daniels. In “Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places” Colin Dickey presents a study of hauntings in America and why the American public seems fascinated by ghosts.The author says that hauntings usually occur in houses, hangouts, institutions and in entire towns and that they usually say more about the living than about t
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