Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Colin Dickey
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The spectral map Dickey creates is as broad and packed as his book’s title implies.
This spiritualization of corporeal feelings is the idea at the heart of Ghostland, a book that repeats this thesis over and over again, but does so in such creative and even ingenious ways that the reader pays no mind to that lingering echo in the basement.
...[a] sly, entertaining compendium of American haunting.
As he wends his way through the landmarks and their histories, Dickey thoroughly and convincingly explores the many underpinnings of ghost stories and hauntings.
Dickey connects themes in each story to literature, philosophy, psychiatry, or sociology, making for a deceptive, albeit entertaining, way to eat your vegetables.
Putting his background as a scholar and cultural historian to good use, the author takes us on a thought-provoking exploration of our relationship with the supernatural.
Whether the ghosts in these stories are somehow, you know, real is sort of beside the point in writer Colin Dickey’s fascinating (but rarely spooky) new non-fiction book.