Ghostland
Subtitle: an American history in haunted places
By: Colin Dickey
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781101980194; 9781101980217
Subjects: Haunted places
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Unhomely: houses, mansions; title: The Secret Staircase (Salem, MA); title: Shifting Ground (St. Francisville, LA); title: The Endless House (San Jose, CA); title: The Rathole Revelation (Georgetown, NY, and Bull Valley, IL); title: The Family That Would Not Live (St. Louis, MO); title: After Hours : bars, restaurants, hotels, brothels; title: A Devilish Place (Richmond, VA); title: Baby (Reno, NV); title: Passing Through (Los Angeles, CA) Civic-Minded Spirits: prisons and asylums, graveyards and cemeteries, a park; title: Melancholy Contemplation (Moundsville, WV); title: The Stain (Danvers, MA, and Athens, OH); title: Awaiting the Devil's Coming (Charleston, SC, and Douglas County, KS); title: Our Illustrious Dead (Shiloh, TN); title: The Wind Through Cathedral Park (Portland, OR); title: Useless Memory: cities and towns; title: The Wet Grave (New Orleans, LA); title: Among the Ruins (Detroit, MI); title: Hillsdale, USA; title: Epilogue; title: Ghosts of a New Machine (Allendale, CA).