Dark nonfiction book club is a new book discussion group for the morbidly curious. We will explore dark topics such as true crime, natural disasters, war stories, death and dying, manmade disasters, forensic science, burial and funerary practices, and cults.
Wednesday, October 16 at 6:30pm. We will be discussing: Ghostland : An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey.
“Dickey, piqued by a house hunt in LA 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.”
Multiple copies are available at the service desk.
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