Cursed: Take A Journey to the Scary Side of Geography
From the Bermuda Triangle to Amityville, the world is full of spooky places. This author went to 30 of the most frightening ones. And returned to tell the tale.
Most of us avoid frightening or unpleasant places when we travel. But when Olivier Le Carrer found himself caught in a storm on board a sailing ship in the Bermuda Triangle, his interest in the dark side of geography was aroused. In Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide To Dangerous And Frightful Destinations, he takes us on a tour of some of the world’s most benighted places, from the Gaza Strip to a giant garbage dump in the Maldive Islands and Amityville’s House of Horrors.
Writing by email from his home in Paris, he describes what constitutes a cursed place; how buried under a suburb in Tunis is a place where thousands of children were