The Ashgate research companion to paranormal cultures

Contents: Introduction, Sally R. Munt
 Part I Paranormal Epistemologies: Haunted culture: the persistence of belief in the paranormal, Christopher Partridge
 The ghost in the machine: spirit and technology, John Harvey
 Paranormal cultural practices, Annette Hill
 Extraordinary experiences with UFOs, David Clarke
 Ghosts in the body: infections, genes and the re-enchantment of biology, Robert Peckham
 Sceptic culture: traditions of disbelief in New Mexico, William J. Dewan
 'Paranormal science' from America to Italy: a case of cultural homogenization, Andrea Molle and Christopher D. Bader
 Making sense of the paranormal: a Platonic context for research methods, Angela Voss
 Everyday ghosts: a matter of believing in belonging, Abby Day
 'A giant bedsheet with the holes cut out': expectations and discussions of the appearance of ghosts, Paul Cowdell
 Interpreting death and the afterlife in US paranormal reality television programmes and online fan groups, Diane Dobry. Part II The Paranormal and Social Change: Wilhelm Reich and The Etheric Warriors, Sarah Jane Sloane
 Other senses: the politics of mediumship, Esther Peeren
 'There's something in my house': television and the politics of then paranormal, Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi
 Social realism and the paranormal in Scandinavian fiction, Olu Jenzen
 Immersed in illusion, haunted by history: Marisa Carnesky's ghost train, Josephine Machon
 Ireland the anomalous state: paranormal cultures and the Irish literary and political revival, Wendy E. Cousins
 Mexico's La Ilustacion Espirita: toward a transatlantic understanding of a spiritualist archive, Maria del Pilar Blanco
 Visions of the paranormal: representations of psychic women and ghosts in television and film, Karin Beeler. Part III Paranormal Phenomenologies: The gizmo and the glitch: telepathy, ocular philosophy, and other extensions of sensation, Kristen Gallerneaux Brooks
 Paranormal art history: psychometry and the afterlife of objects, a Canadian case study, Jennifer Fisher
 Music and the paranormal, Melvyn J. Willin
 Summoning the spirits: suggestion, magic and the cognitive approach to performance creation, Jon Armstrong
 Trance, transfiguration and trust: spiritualism in Western Australia, Janet Baldwin
 A phenomenology of the ghostb hunting scene in the USA and Germany, Gerhard Mayer
 The GHost Project - manifesting ghosts through visual art and creative research, Sarah Sparkes
 The monsters of Walthamstow and Hackney marshes: prehistoric ghosts that haunt East London's lower Lea valley, Gareth Edward Rees
 A short bestiary of creatures from the web, Line Henriksen
 Bibliography
 Index.