5/26/2023 0 Comments Ghostland by Colin Dickey![]() (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) On a rainy morning beneath a funeral veil sky, Paste chatted with Dickey about architecture’s role in hauntings, how the South’s ghost stories are rooted in slavery and technology’s role in the future of specters. Ghostland, Dickey’s new book chronicling the sociological history of America’s most haunted places, finds its power not in the numerous phantoms lurking in the country’s shadows, but in the buildings, battlefields, slave prisons and Native American lands that birthed them. After all, are not people haunted by lovers and places haunted by tragedies?īy hewing to the facts and using a historian’s loupe, author Colin Dickey seeks to illuminate ghosts’ cultural presence. ![]() ![]() Ghost stories are how we attempt to codify the uncanny and the uncomfortable, the painful and the personal, the romantic and the irredeemably horrible. ![]()
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