![]() ![]() ![]() Ghostland is a book that is hard to classify, and all the more beautiful for being so. All this and more can be found in the pages of Edward Parnell’s haunting (and haunted) Ghostland, a narrative that continuously reminds us that it is ‘always the ghosts’ that linger. In such uncertain times then, it is perhaps no wonder that so many of us, dubbed ‘the haunted generation’ by the Fortean Times, remain preoccupied with the ghosts that have shaped us: the stories we’ve loved since childhood, the genius loci of our landscape, or those collective and personal memories that lurk in the edgelands of our minds, too fleeting or too painful to bring into full focus. Ghost stories in part represent ways of making sense and meaning from the past, as well as offering a means of understanding our present. The British landscape, be it geographical, literary, artistic or ideological, has always been riven with ghosts, a folkloric and supernatural fusion of the multiple histories and cultures embedded within the spaces that surround us. Review by Barbara Chamberlin (see bottom of page for bio). ![]() Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country ![]()
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