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Colin Dickey

@colindickey.com

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Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Oct 20

Hello new followers it’s Spooky Season and also Election Time so perhaps I can interest you in some books on ghosts, UFOs & monsters, or our long history of conspiratorial politics?

Three books by Colin Dickey: Ghostland, The Unidentified, and Under the Eye of Power

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 5h

The mandolin breakdown in “Maggie May” is always so nice. Sometimes I’m lukewarm on that song but then the mandolin hits and all is good

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Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 5h

every time i hear someone honking excitedly i log on to see if it happened

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 14h

be the ruinous volcanism you wish to see in the world

Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 14h

Back in the day, Earth’s ruinous volcanism almost sterilized the planet. Fortunately for living things, Earth gradually drew the excess carbon dioxide deep into its rocky bowels, and the planet cooled back down.

Why Is Venus Hell and Earth an Eden? | Quanta Magazine

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 15h

Doing a Halloween-ish themed Monster of the Month tonight: The Overlook Hotel.

Come join us at 7:00 Eastern! (if you're a member of Atlas Obscura's Experiences you can watch a recording later if you miss tonight)

Monster of the Month w Colin Dickey: The Overlook Hotel

What's hiding in those woods? Is there something under your bed? Have you heard the stories about the creature in the water? Join Atlas Obscura, and author Colin Dicke...

www.atlasobscura.com

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 15h

that's so lovely to hear! thanks!

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 15h

thanks for reading! enjoy!

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 15h

It's that time

The Rampant Hag @therampanthag.bsky.social · 1d

I love you spooky season

A light-skinned hand holds a book with a black cover and stylized white writing on top of a floral blanket. The book reads: Ghostland. An American History of Haunted Places by Colin Dickey. A quote attributed to the New York Times Book Review states “Riveting… Both intellectually intriguing and politically instructive.”

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

John is such a fabulous writer, check this out if you can

John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 1d

DC folks, I couldn’t be more excited to announce this BACKBEATS publication day event at Kramers in DuPont Circle. I’ll be in conversation with my friend and inspiration @andreapitzer.bsky.social. Come out and talk rock and roll with us!

John Lingan: Backbeats | Kramers

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

how is that of use to me, here in the United States

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

bien sur!

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

All of my literary opinions are incredibly hinged

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Forgot to schedule this one at the usual time, but please enjoy some highlights of @jwomack.bsky.social's amazing collection of UFO literature along with a few of his indelible descriptions

Glacial Errata, No. 38

Five Things for the Week of September 15, 2025.

glacialerrata.beehiiv.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

The most aggravating power outlet in the entire history of industrial design

Alaska airlines power outlet that’s at an inverted angle so that any thing you put in it has to wedged in there or it immediately falls out, designed by a hateful asshole who has never known joy and wishes nothing but misery on all humanity

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

“Bluesky: it’s just a jump to the left”

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Group sex group sex group sex

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

This looks right:

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Sarah @dwyara.bsky.social · 2d

landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/sequo...

Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Pendulum' | Landscape Plants | Oregon State University

landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Sweeeeeeet thank you

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

Hey can anyone identify these Dr Seuss-ass looking trees?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 3d

AITA for Eloping with the Real Ghost of the Real Bleeding Nun

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

Whomst among us hadn’t made this exact mistake

Plot detail from Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk:

Raymond and Agnes made plans to elope before Agnes left her aunt's castle for the convent. Agnes planned to dress as the Bleeding Nun, a ghost who haunted the castle and exited its gates at midnight. Raymond accidentally eloped with the real ghost of the real Bleeding Nun.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

Also wasn’t he literally just attacking Mamdani for being in a rent stabilized apartment like two months ago? Is that what we’re calling a mansion now?

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

There is just so, so much going on here

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 4d

It’s the same fare card but if you make under $200,000 and try to get on the bus they laugh at you and slam the door on you and then go back to drinking champagne on their way to Port Authority

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