'A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare
'An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker, author of
Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell
found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy.
For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories
that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have
attempted to confront what comes after death. In Ghostland,
Parnell goes in search of the 'sequestered places' of the British
Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores
and our folkloric woodlands.
He explores how these landscapes
conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema,
from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. R. James, Arthur Machen
and Algernon Blackwood to the children's fantasy novels of Alan Garner
and Susan Cooper; from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and
Graham Swift's Waterland to the archetypal 'folk horror' film The Wicker
Man... Ghostland is Parnell's moving exploration of what
has haunted our writers and artists - and what is haunting him.
It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.
Ghostland : In Search of a Haunted Country - Edward Parnell
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