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b'Colin Dicky\\u2019s book Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places is hands down one of the finest books to grace the market in years. It needs to be a staple in everyone\\u2019s paranormal library. Check out the book description and bio below. \\n\\nBook Description: \\n Colin Dickey is on the trail of America\\u2019s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and \\u201czombie homes,\\u201d Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as \\u201cthe most haunted mansion in America,\\u201d or \\u201cthe most haunted prison\\u201d; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. \\n With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living\\u2014how do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made\\u2014and why those changes are made\\u2014Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of the things left undone, crimes left unsolved. \\n Spellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers the past we\\u2019re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.\\n\\nColin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America. As a writer, speaker, and academic, he has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He\\u2019s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham\\u2019s Quarterly and is the co-editor (with Joanna Ebenstein) of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world\\u2019s relationship with mortality. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.'