Colin Dickey

Colin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America. As a writer, speaker, and academic, he has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham’s Quarterly, and is the co-editor (with Joanna Ebenstein) of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world’s relationship with mortality. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.
Afterlives of the Saints

Afterlives of the Saints

Colin Dickey

Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

Colin Dickey

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

Colin Dickey

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained

Colin Dickey

Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

Colin Dickey