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Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook Ova Ceren whose London house was aA fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors from witch trials to slavery and genocide continue to haunt the national consciousness. Ghosts frequently speak of a lost past, but just as often they gesture forwards to an unrealised future, a dream that failed to come true. The witches and ghouls of New England; vampires and zombies in the bible belt; atomic monsters of the