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02340aam a2200325 i 4500 001 CFE3FB60471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190628t20192019enka b 001 0aeng d 020 $a 000827195X 020 $a 9780008271954 035 $a (OCoLC)1112370825 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ZNS $d UAB $d NZAUC $d YDX $d OCL $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a BF1472 G7 P376 2019 100 1 $a Parnell, Edward $e author. 245 10 $a Ghostland : $b in search of a haunted country / $c Edward Parnell. 246 30 $a In search of a haunted country 264 1 $a London : $b William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2019. 300 $a 468 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a What does it mean to be haunted? Why do certain places give us a sense of the uncanny? And should we run from the things that haunt us, or embrace them? In his late thirties, the ghost story writer Edward Parnell found himself without a family. His parents had died in quick succession in his teens, before his beloved brother succumbed to the same disease years later. In his grief, he turned to his bookshelves. In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the Ìsequestered places' of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our barren shores and our mysterious and ancient woodlands. At the same time he explores how these places conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of our literature and cinema, from the ghost stories of MR James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to Alan Garner and Susan Cooper's fantasies, from WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift's Waterland to Robin Hardy's Ìfolk horror' film The Wicker Man. Ghostland is an evocative and moving exploration of what haunted these writers and artists, and what is it that is haunting him. It is a unique meditation on grief, memory and longing, and the magical power of stories and nature. 600 10 $a Parnell, Edward. 600 10 $a Parnell, Edward $x Travel $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Haunted places $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Ghosts in literature. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780008271961 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406020914.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CFE3FB60471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search