Colin Dickey is the author of five books of nonfiction: Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy; The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained; Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places; Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith; and Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. He is also the co-editor (with Joanna Ebenstein) of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology.
He has written on fringe culture, conspiracy belief, the paranormal and the occult, as well as death and dying, for a variety of publications, including The New Republic, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Believer, Slate.com, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, and The Smithsonian, among many others.
He divides his time between Brooklyn, New York and Los Angeles, California.