03163cam a2200517 i 4500 601151250 TxAuBib 20220809120000.0 160923s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016044006 9781101980194 hardcover 1101980192 hardcover 9781101980200 1101980206 40026532333 (OCoLC)936619826 TxAuBib rda Dickey, Colin,. Ghostland : an American history in haunted places / Colin Dickey. New York, New York : Viking, [2016] xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index. Introduction: Anatomy of a haunting (New York, NY) -- The secret staircase (Salem, MA) -- Shifting ground (St. Francisville, LA) -- The endless house (San Jose, CA) -- The rathole revelation (Georgetown, NY, and Bull Valley, IL) -- The family that would not live (St. Louis, MO) -- A devilish place (Richmond, VA) -- Baby (Reno, NV) -- Passing through (Los Angeles, CA) -- Melancholy contemplation (Moundsville, WV) -- The stain (Danvers, MA, and Athens, OH) -- Awaiting the devil's coming (Charleston, SC, and Douglas County, KS) -- Our illustrious dead (Shiloh, TN) -- The wind through Cathedral Park (Portland, OR) -- The wet grave (New Orleans, LA) -- Among the ruins (Detroit, MI) -- Hillsdale, USA -- Epilogue: Ghosts of a new machine (Allendale, CA). Dickey, piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles 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. 20220809. Haunted places United States. Ghosts. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT supernatural. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Supernatural. Travel special interest. Travel general. Lieux hantés États-Unis. Social science Death & Dying. Haunted places. Haunted houses United States. United States. United States. History gen. History United States. Dickey, Colin., New York : Viking, 2016. TXDCK