Some places are as haunted as our pasts.
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Boo: A Reading List About Ghosts
Ghost stories point to a reality beyond our own — or, at the very least, to an expanded understanding of what this plane of existence encompasses. (And they’re fun.)
Posted inEditor's Pick
Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Author
The most remarkable thing about Patience Worth wasn’t that she was dead. It was that all she wanted to do was write books.
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The Known Unknown: Tales of the Yucca Man
The desert has its own version of Sasquatch, and it’s just as smelly and hairy.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quotes
Is This House Haunted, or Is That Just a Drunk Guy on the Lawn?
The owners of the real-life Amityville Horror house had to have the street address changed to avoid the real terror: tourists.
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The True, Twisted Story of Amityville Horror
No one place has made as deep an impression on American pop culture as the notorious Long Island home, site of a terrible murder and the basis of scores of books and movies.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Ghosts
In this profile at New Republic, Josephine Livingstone talks with Viet Thanh Nguyen (winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer) about the ghosts that inhabit his life, his writing, and his birthplace in Vietnam.