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Colin Dickey

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Colin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America. As a writer, speaker, and academic, he has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. 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. 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. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National ...more

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"Like a disease that gradually but inexorably blossoms into a pandemic, Alexander’s military band set..."

“Like a disease that gradually but inexorably blossoms into a pandemic, Alexander’s military band set off a craze that would result in various musicians, orchestras, and nations vying for higher and higher tones, with sharper and sharper notes.”

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Average rating: 3.74 · 12,576 ratings · 2,096 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places 3.74 avg rating — 9,560 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained 3.67 avg rating — 1,698 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy 3.90 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius 3.55 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afterlives of the Saints 3.90 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Morbid Anatomy Anthology by Joanna Ebenstein (editor), Colin Dickey (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightmare Magazine 50: November 2016 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael Shea (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Land of Delusion: Out on the Edge with the Crackpots and Conspiracy-Mongers Remaking Our Shared Reality it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of Illustration: The Photographic Novels of Henry James by Colin Dickey, Michael Maloney 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trepan 3 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We tell stories of the dead as a way of making a sense of the living. More than just simple urban legends and campfire tales, 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. The past we’re most afraid to speak aloud of in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.”
― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

tags: american-history, folk-tales, ghost-stories, ghosts

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“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.”
― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

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“When it came to the definition of genius, the ultimate measure could never really be the skull - the measure was always the writing, the music, the art itself.”
― Colin Dickey, Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

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