My article on "dark tourism" at Jonestown for Sightings

From time to time, I publish a column on the online journal Sightings. It gives me a chance to write about things besides Hindu myths.

In the past I’ve written about Jesus rock, Charles Manson, and the role of Indo-European themes of hospitality in The Last House on the Left.

This week, I wrote a piece about “dark tourism” at Jonestown, which fits squarely in the 60s pop culture analysis niche I’ve carved out for myself (and by “the 60s,” I mean 1965-1975).

If I had more space, I might have talked about the 1980 made-for-TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones with Powers Boothe.

You can read it here.