Haunted States
An American Gothic Guidebook
$24.99
- 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 satanic …
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: | 197mm x 130mm |
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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
About The Author
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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