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Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

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I had no idea what to expect when I started this book (the author is a friend of a family member so gave it a go), but am delighted by the outcome. L. Barker, Lucy Boston, Ithell Colquhoun, Susan Cooper, Charles Dickens, Alan Garner, John Gordon, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Paul Nash, Amyas Northcote, W. Ghost stories are a way of talking about things we’re not otherwise allowed to discuss: a forbidden history we thought bricked up safely in the walls. It is a jolt then as Parnell pulls us away from Machen’s Grey Hill or Sebald’s Suffolk with the reveals of his unfolding personal memories, a reminder of the horror of loss; a collective sharing of grief, but a narrative that can only be deeply personal.

but there were many times when I felt that delicious sense of unease that particularly English folk horror can bring.

With time running short and the dead quickly outnumbering the living, the survivors must tap into their knowledge of horror and video games to escape… or become Ghostland’s newest exhibits. Now, years later, we carefully follow the food-stained, handwritten recipes for the family’s special turkey stuffing or for Mom’s apple pie, and it all still tastes wonderful, yet never half as wonderful as it did once upon a time. He deftly moves from first-person narrative to social and literary history to nature writing, a psychogeographical drift through time and space that drops in many a reference to Gothic and horror texts. His writing is extremely descriptive, creating mental visuals which match or exceed the multitude of black and white photographs (most of which he took himself on his excursions) which are placed appropriately throughout the text.

Part of the special delight of GHOSTLAND is its many informed asides, revealing Dickey's long hours of spading up obscure facts and quotes . By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Examining our country’s local ghost stories—where they came from, how they’ve evolved, how they’re recounted—may tell us a great deal about things we thought were long settled and in the past. Lange habe ich nachgedacht, wie man "Eerie stories" eigentlich am besten auf Deutsch überträgt, denn "Unheimliche Geschichten" oder "Gruselige Geschichten" trifft es nur zum Teil. In each chapter, Dickey spins riveting tales and then carefully unwinds these narratives, exposing the materials and motivations of their construction .

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