Haunted States
An American Gothic Guidebook
$29.08
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
A fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors - from witch trials to slavery and genocide - continue to haunt the national consciousness.
“Ghosts frequently speak of a lost past, but just as often they gesture forwards to an unrealised future, a dream that failed to come true.”
The witches and ghouls of New England; vampires and zombies in the bible belt; atomic monsters of the desert west; and sata…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781914420320 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1914420322 |
| Author: | Miranda Corcoran |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
“Miranda Corcoran makes the best guides to the rich ghost lore of the United States, bringing a rare wisdom to the subject in this eloquent, insightful and compulsively readable book.”
– Susan Owens, author of The Ghost: A Cultural History
“Spook show, cautionary tale and homage to the quirky, spiced with a pinch of Freud and Derrida – a witness to the other America, whose swampy soul remains captive to the unquietly dead.”
– Fortean Times
Miranda Corcoran
Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in June 2022 by the University of Wales Press. Her next book, a study of the 1996 film The Craft, will be published by Auteur/Liverpool University Press in summer 2023. She has published in numerous academic journals and regularly provides DVD audio-commentaries and video essays for horror releases.
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