![]() ![]() ![]() The spectral map Dickey creates is as broad and packed as his book’s title implies. To answer those questions, Dickey, a writer who has produced eerie studies of historical and anatomical oddities, turns his ever curious eye to the widespread phenomenon of hauntings - to the lure of ghostly places for visitors and the impact of these places on local communities. “How do we inhabit and move through spaces that we have deemed haunted?” “How do we deal with stories about the dead and their ghosts?” Dickey asks. Whether or not ghosts are real is beside the point, Colin Dickey tells us in the first lines of “Ghostland.” Rather, what compels him in this appealing book is the meaning of haunted places in contemporary American culture. GHOSTLAND An American History in Haunted Places By Colin Dickey 320 pp. ![]()
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