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This collection of articles looks at ghost stories ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary movies from different perspectives, both interdisciplinary and international. Spectral phenomena from Antarctic literature to Haitian Voodoo, Russian poetry to Irish novels are discussed in relation to their places in history and the media.

Supernatural in literature. --- Ghosts in literature. --- Ghosts in motion pictures. --- Future life in literature. --- Ghosts. --- Ghost stories --- Ghosts --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- History and criticism. --- Fiction --- Horror tales --- Motion pictures --- Apparitions --- Future life in motion pictures. --- Literature --- Carl Jung --- Ghost story --- Loa --- Oscar Wilde --- Zhiguai xiaoshuo

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In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have been haunted by our memories, the past itself, by inklings of the future, by events playing outside our lives, and by ourselves. Hence the lure of ghost stories throughout history and presumably prehistory. Science has been a great destroyer of myth and superstition, but at the same time it has created new black boxes which we are filling with our ghostly imagination. In this book, literature from the Middle Ages to Oscar Wilde and Neil Gaiman, children’s stories, folklore and films, ranging from the Antarctic and Russia to Haiti, are covered and show the continuing presence of spectral phenomena.