Haunted States

Name: Haunted States
Brand: Repeater
SKU: 9781914420320-PRUSDTR-US
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An American Gothic Guidebook

Miranda Corcoran (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

352 pages • 5.12 x 7.73 x 1.11 in

Approx. weight: 0.7 lb

Publication date: 08 Oct,2024

Barcode: 9781914420320 • Repeater

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By: Miranda Corcoran

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.

Haunted States is a unique guidebook that explores the dark, often horrifying, history of the US. Based on the author’s journey across the United States in summer 2022, it explores locations connected to Gothic fiction and film, tracking the relationship between the American landscapes and the various forms of fictional horror the nation has produced over the centuries.

Part cultural history and part travelogue, Haunted States traces how the American Gothic draws inspiration from the natural and built environments, with the astounding geographical variation of the landscape influencing the distinctive forms of horror produced across its many diverse regions. The book also investigates how the horrors of the American Gothic have their roots in the nation’s dark history of colonialism, slavery, violence and oppression – past sins that continue to haunt the national consciousness to this day. Taking horror (in literature, film and the visual arts) as its starting point, Haunted States investigates the landscapes, places and cultures that produced it.

Incorporating first-person travel narrative, historical context and supplementary interviews, Haunted States journeys across the USA to learn about its eclectic, regional forms of horror.