7/7/2023 0 Comments Ghostland by Colin Dickey![]() ![]() Dickey spends some time retelling the visitors’ experiences, but he is more attentive to depicting the atmosphere of the period in the country’s life. The writer says that this house, whose only significant outer feature is color (“it’s painted entirely in matte black”), was a witness of the late seventeenth-century events when many people underwent execution after witchcraft trials (21). Dickey pays much attention to the historical period in which the house was built and the events which took place in it. While describing the haunted house at Salem, Massachusetts, the author calls the place “home to the most famous miscarriages of justice” in the country’s early history (21). Here, Dickey gives an account of some of the most well-known haunted houses in the country. ![]() The author divides his book into four parts, the first one being about haunted houses and mansions. ![]()
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