#ghostland

[bebx]

Incident in a Ghostland

#incident in a ghostland #ghostland #film recommendations #psychological horror #goth #gothic #rural #ruralcore #southern gothic #southern goth aesthetic #filmedit #rural america #spooky #rural gothic #rural aesthetic #whump #southern aesthetic #southern goth #film #films #movie #movies

[jadesythirlwall]

CRYSTAL REED as BETH KELLER GHOSTLAND (2018)

#ghostland #*c

[moratoirenoir]

#zoologist perfume #zoologist #moth #tomoo inaba #v.c. andrews #my sweet audrina #incident in a ghostland #ghostland #pascal laugier

[pink-evilette]

incident in a ghostland (2018)

#pascal laugier #ghostland #incident in a ghostland #horror #coquette #coquette aesthetic #morute #coquette moodboard #horror coquette #coquette films #made by me

[machineryangel]

me before reading ghostland: ehehe funny lil book about ghosts

ghostland: racism is deeply engraved in american culture and that heavily includes the narrative in stories about hauntings. the anglo-fascination with indian burial lands is nothing new & white americans approach the sacred lands with exoticism and treat it as a trope. they also make up stories about ghosts of black people based entirely on stereotypes that conform to cliches ("sexually precocious" slave, "tragic mulatto") they think make the story interesting- and other times they tell stories about ghosts of fictitious white people haunting a land despite the fact that the land in question is where real black men, women, and children were brought to, imprisoned, and tortured while they waited to be sold to planters and speculators and died in inhumane ways.

me after reading ghostland: ....... what

#?????????? #they??? white washed ????? horror stories ????? #cr #<- stands for current read. for future entries maybe #slavery #racism #ghostland #colin dickey #Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

[forthegothicheroine]

There’s an interesting (and upsetting) chapter in Ghostland about the reported hauntings in Richmond, Virginia, and how the ones used for tourism are mostly stories of white people, including plantation owners. To hear stories about black ghosts and hauntings related to slavery, you have to seek out the interviews collected in the 1930s by the WPA with formerly enslaved people, who talked about the ghosts and witches they’d either seen or heard about as folklore.

To any of my followers who live or lived in Virginia or other southern states, what was your experience with hearing local ghost stories, whether as things people saw or promotions for local attractions?

#ghostland #ghosts #history

[nakedinashes]

books cristina read in 2023: ghostland: an american history in haunted places - colin dickey

Here, then, is a central paradox in the way that ghosts work: to turn the living into ghosts is to empty them out, rob them of something vital; to keep the dead alive as ghosts is to fill them up with memory and history, to keep alive a thing that would otherwise be lost.

#ghostland an american history in haunted places #colin dickey #ghostland #nonfiction #haunted houses #ghost stories #books i read #2023 reads

[willowsfanarts]

it’s pushing me harder - latest artwork

#crystal reed #teen wolf #teen wolf movie #allison argent #teen wolf the movie #huntress #werewolves #skyline #crazy stupid love #jawtopia #crush #too late #ghostland #Marie-Jeanne Valet #gotham #swap things #actress

[thebroken--soul]

I need 7-10 business days to process the movie Ghostland.

#I’m shocked #I’m speechless #this movie is a masterpiece #wow #horror movie #Ghostland #crystal reed #mylène farmer

[brightbeautifulthings]

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

"Myself, I tend to think of ghost stories as a natural way of preserving--or at least attempting to preserve--a history that might otherwise go unnoticed and forgotten."

Year Read: 2022

Rating: 2/5

Thoughts: I only average about one nonfiction book a year. How odd that I enjoyed last year's on politics so much more than this year's on haunted houses. Despite being a horror lover, I've never been a big fan of history with all its real atrocities, but I did enjoy the way Dickey looks into the historical facts behind some well-known haunted places and tries to set the record straight. Unfortunately, this also includes a lot of debunking of ghost stories, which most often have no basis in anything that really happened, but I wasn't terribly invested in them being true anyway. Dickey doesn't seem to be either, and I never got the sense he believed in anything he was witnessing or writing about. I would have been skeptical if he had obviously been trying to persuade me that ghosts were real, but a book about hauntings by a complete non-believer comes over a bit dry.

I can't really figure out what Dickey is trying to accomplish with this. He spends a lot of time shoe-horning in his own historical explanations for why people tell these particular stories. He doesn't spend near enough time supporting those arguments in order to make them compelling, instead meandering into a lot of architectural descriptions and tortured metaphors for other ways things can be considered "haunted." Structurally, it's a bit of a mess as well, with weird detours in the chapters that have nothing whatsoever to do with his main point, and a number of things like economically-down-on-their-luck towns that he insists are "haunted" without any ghost stories whatsoever. I was really sick of the word being used to reference anything BUT actual ghosts by the end. I also feel the book overlooks a lot of other reasons people tell ghost stories aside from the historical ones: psychological and cultural, just to name a few. Frankly, I got more compelling arguments from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It's all a bit labored and unsupported, and the only reason I finished was because I needed to check spooky nonfiction off a horror reading challenge.

#book review #colin dickey #ghostland #ghostland: an american history in haunted places #nonfiction #horror #ghosts #2/5 #rating: 2/5 #2022

[movie--posters]

#ghostland #movie poster #movie posters #chrystal reed #anastasia phillips #emilia jones #taylor hickson #mylene farmer #horror

[ngsndr]

Ganz großes Kino. 4 von 5 Punkten.

#ghostland #movie review #horror #vod #prime video #Youtube

[scaredy-fox]

Okay “Incident in a Ghostland” was traumatic and just so hopeless. I was left questioning whether the ending was what it claimed it was… as every good unreliable narrator horror should honestly!! It was bleak and painful, and quite the surprise for a TV-MA rated movie. Not the most gory thing in the world, but not lacking on the blood and violence - HUGE warning for sexual violence and assault of underage victims throughout.

#horror movie #horror #horror movies #fox screams #incident in a ghostland #ghostland #SA TW #TW SA

[moratoirenoir]

#zoologist #zoologist perfume #moth #tomoo inaba #my sweet audrina #v.c. andrews #incident in a ghostland #ghostland #pascal laugier

[pink-evilette]

edit by me ♡

#coquette #coquette aesthetic #coquette hair #incident in a ghostland #ghostland #pascal laugier #horror

[machineryangel]

Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

#finished this at last! heres my favorite excerpts <3 #words #house that eats and pleads and kills #hauntings #cr #ghostland #colin dickey #theres another part im prob gonna post abt tech + hauntings 😌 #and there were so many eye opening parts abt women + spiritualism / gentrification + ghosts / history of kkk #generally i found it v interesting & informative so i very much recommend !! #just dont forget to check the content warnings on storygraph bec there are times the book gets into graphic detail of terrible stuff #horror