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Title:
Ghostland : an American history in haunted places
Author:
Dickey, Colin, author.
ISBN:
9781101980194
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York :

Viking,

[2016?]

©2016
Physical Description:
xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
The Unhomely: houses, 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, 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).
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