| Description |
xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-308) and index. |
| Contents |
The Unhomely: houses and mansions -- 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) -- After Hours : bars, restaurants, hotels, and brothels -- A Devilish Place (Richmond, VA) -- Baby (Reno, NV) -- Passing Through (Los Angeles, CA) -- Civic-Minded Spirits: prisons and asylums, graveyards and cemeteries, a park -- 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) -- Useless Memory: cities and towns -- The Wet Grave (New Orleans, LA) -- Among the Ruins (Detroit, MI) -- Hillsdale, USA -- Epilogue : Ghosts of a New Machine (Allendale, CA). |
| Summary |
Takes readers on a road trip through some of the United States' most infamously haunted places and deep into the dark side of American history. |
| Subject |
Haunted places -- United States.
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Ghosts -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dickey, Colin, author. Ghostland New York : Viking, 2016 9781101980217 (DLC) 2016044819 |
| ISBN |
9781101980194 (hardcover) : $27.00 |
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1101980192 (hardcover) : $27.00 |
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