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Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

By (author) Edward Parnell

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 â€˜A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literatureâ€™ Philip Hoare â€˜An exciting new voiceâ€™ 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 â€˜sequestered placesâ€™ 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 childrenâ€™s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W. G. Sebaldâ€™s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swiftâ€™s Waterland to the archetypal â€˜folk horrorâ€™ film The Wicker Manâ€¦ Ghostland is Parnellâ€™s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists â€“ 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.