Bibliograph

Ghostland, an American history in haunted places, Colin Dickey

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Label

Ghostland, an American history in haunted places, Colin Dickey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ghostland

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

936619826

Responsibility statement

Colin Dickey

Sub title

an American history in haunted places

Summary

Dickey, piqued by a house hunt in LA that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie houses", embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living -- how do we deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes are made to those facts and why, Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone and crimes left unsolved. --, from dust jacket

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