Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University. Colin Dickey is on the trail of Americas ghosts. 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’s relationship with mortality. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham’s Quarterly, and is the co-editor (with Joanna Ebenstein) of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. As a writer, speaker, and academic, he has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. The relationship between technology and ghosthunters is as old as the telegraph. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National Colin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America. Colin Dickey, the author of Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, says this is not an accident. Colin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America.

Ghostland by Colin Dickey