Wed, Sep 09
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Betsy Gaines Quammen, This Haunted Land & Annette McGivney, Plastic Shaman
In "This Haunted Land," Quammen investigates some of America’s most enduring ghost stories and uncovers how ghost stories can help us come to terms with our unsettled past. McGivney's "Plastic Shaman" is the true story of a deadly self-help retreat and America's misguided quest for wellness.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 09, 2026, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Pre-order This Haunted Land ($24.95, hardcover, publishes Sept. 1) and Plastic Shaman ($32.00, hardcover, publishes Sept. 15) online from CWB or call the store to order.
This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories that Shape America
In This Haunted Land, Betsy Gaines Quammen investigates some of America’s most enduring ghost stories and uncovers how ghost stories can help us come to terms with our unsettled past. With curiosity, a bit of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Gaines Quammen takes readers on a riveting, sometimes spooky journey into the haunted towns, lands, waters, and parts of history that we too often ignore. From a once-booming uranium mine community now entombed in Colorado’s Mesa County to America’s oldest fort on the east coast of Florida, This Haunted Land interweaves memory, mourning, folklore, and…