Ghostland in search of a haunted 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 Gh...
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| 520 | 0 | |a 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 <U+2018>sequestered places<U+2019> 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<U+2019>s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W. G. Sebald<U+2019>s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift<U+2019>s Waterland to the archetypal <U+2018>folk horror<U+2019> film The Wicker Man<U+2026> Ghostland is Parnell<U+2019>s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists <U+2013> 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. | |
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