In the introduction to this illuminating study of so-called true hauntings and the American public’s enduring fascination with them, Dickey ( Cranioklepty) posits that “ghost stories reveal the contours of our anxieties, the nature of our collective fears and desires, the things we can’t talk about in any other way.” Grouping haunts into four categories-houses, hangouts, institutions, and entire towns-he shows how the persistence of these ghost stories, especially when their details change with the times, say more about the living than the dead.
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