His occasional first-person accounts affirm he’s combed asylum halls and grave markers as thoroughly as the research archives. Each chapter is an amalgamation of vivid sightseer descriptions, interviews, and the kind of folklore only a local could know. Dickey, who holds a PhD in comparative literature from USC, leaves no gravestone unturned and no trapdoor unopened. Ghostland has its own unique history as a book, originating in lectures at Machine Project, Acme Studio, Odd Salon and Death Salon as well as essays in the Paris Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
that reveals how Americans love to embellish history with the paranormal.
How does an ordinary cemetery become the site of mysterious lights and whispered voices? What makes an abandoned farmhouse the perfect setting for a grizzly murder? When does a real-life abduction in the 1950s turn into a campfire tale of revenge? These questions comprise the skeleton of Colin Dickey’s Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, a tight analysis of the most haunted houses, hangouts, institutions and towns in the U.S.
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