Ghostland An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey

eBook - 2016

One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories...absorbing...[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and 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... more