Introduction

a future for haunting

Peter Buse, Andrew Stott

1-20

Spectres of Engels

Willy Maley

23-49

"Something tremendous, something elemental"

on the ghostly origins of psychoanalysis

Roger Luckhurst

50-71

Phantasmagoria

Walter Benjamin and the poetics of urban modernism

Christina Britzolakis

72-91

Spectre and impurity

history and the transcendental in Derrida and Adorno

Nigel Mapp

92-124

Anachrony and anatopia

spectres of Marx, Derrida and gothic fiction

Ruth Parkin-Gounelas

127-143

Theft, terror and family values

the mysteries and domesticities of udolpho

Natalka Freeland

144-162

The medium of exchange

Mandy Merck

163-178

The postcolonial ghost story

Ken Gelder, Jane Jacobs

179-199

The machine in the ghost

spiritualism, technology and the "direct voice"

Steven Connor

203-225

Angels in the architecture

the economy of the supernatural

Clive Bloom

226-243

The other side of Plato's wall

Ralph Noyes

244-262