The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction • Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston
Section I: Ghostly Origins
	1. Gothic and Romantic Ghosts in Novels, Dramas, and the Chapbook • Diane Long Hoeveler
	2. The Ghost Story and the Victorian Literary Marketplace • Anthony Mandal
	3. The Ghost Story and Science • Sarah Bissell
	4. Oscar Wilde in the Fourth Dimension: Ghosts, Geometry, and the Victorian Crisis of Meaning • Jarlath Killeen
	5. Ghost Stories and Sensation Fiction • Brittany Roberts
	6. Women Writers and Ghost Stories • Melissa Edmundson
	7. The Victorian Ghost Story and the Invention of Christmas • Dewi Evans
Section II: Vital Spirits
	8. Playful Spirits: Charles Dickens and the Ghost Story • Claire Wood
	9. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • Alison Milbank
	10. Haunting Memories: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Ghost Stories of Margaret Oliphant • Elizabeth McCarthy
	11. Algernon Blackwood • S. T. Joshi
	12. Conan Doyle’s Sceptical Reader: Ghost Stories, Science, and Spiritualism • Kevin Mills
	13. M. R. James • Darryl Jones
	14. Jamesian Ghosts: Romance and History • T. J. Lustig
	15. Vernon Lee • Oliver Tearle
	16. “A Roaring and Discontinuous Universe”: Edith Wharton’s Modern Hauntings • Emily Coit
	17. “German Has a Word for the Total Effect”: Robert Aickman’s Strange Stories • Timothy Jones
Section III: Haunted Nations
	18. The English Ghost Story • David Punter
	19. The Ghost Story in Scotland • Timothy C. Baker
	20. Haunted Wales • Jane Aaron
	21. The American Ghost Story • Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
	22. “If You Build It, They Will Come”: The Strange Case of the English-Canadian Ghost Story • Cynthia Sugars
	23. The Ghost and the Darkness: Creole Hauntings in Caribbean Literature • Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
	24. The Latin American Ghost Story • Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
	25. “There Was More in This Darkness”: The New Zealand Ghost Story • Erin Mercer
	26. Australian Ghost Fiction • David Ellison and Penelope Hone
	27. Strange Ghosts: Asian Reconfi gurations of the Chinese Ghost Story • Katarzyna Ancuta
	28. Indian Ghosts: A Love Affair • Tabish Khair
	29. Shades of Dissent: Notes on Haunting in South African Literary History • Rebecca Duncan
Section IV: Haunting Sites
	30. Haunted Landscapes • Lucie Armitt
	31. Transport and Trauma: Uncanny Modernities • Ralph Harrington
	32. Ghost Walking • Scott Brewster
	33. The Ghosts of War • Matt Foley
	34. Haunted Houses • Nick Freeman
	35. Children’s Ghost Stories • Beth Rodgers
Section V: Ghosts on Screen and Stage
	36. Screening the Spectre: Ghosts on Film • Murray Leeder
	37. Enchanted Visions: Ghostly Media From E.T.A. Hoffmann to Alfred Hitchcock • Elisabeth Bronfen
	38. Spirits on the Air: Ghosts, Sound, and the Radio • Richard J. Hand
	39. Ghosts and Television • Derek Johnston
	40. Performing the Ghost Story on the English Stage • Kelly Jones
	41. Cyber-Hauntings: The Online Ghost Story and Its Cultural Narratives • Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Section VI: Ghosts in Theory
	42. How Ghosts Became Disgusting • Pamela K. Gilbert
	43. Ghostly Animals • Kathryn Bird
	44. The Ghost Story and Feminism • Diana Wallace
	45. “Keeping an Eye on Me”: Queer Spectres • Ardel Haefele-Thomas
	46. Postmodern Ghost Stories • Maria Beville
	47. “Dead Letters”: Post-Colonial Haunting in the Work of a Materialist • Gerald Gaylard
Coda
	48. Stories Not Like Any Others: Ghosts and the Ethics of Literature • Luke Thurston
Index