Introduction / Julie Anne Stevens -- Transformations of the ghost story in post-Reformation England / Peter Marshall -- Telling tales in Robert Mannyng deBrun's Handlyng synne / Andrew J. Power -- 'The gates of hell shall not prevail against it': Laudian Ecclesia and Victorian culture wars in the ghost stories of M.R. James / Helen Conrad O'Briain -- Robert Aickman, the ghost story and the idea of Englishness / Darryl Jones -- Gendering the ghost story? Victorian women and the challenge of the phantom / Jarlath Killeen -- 'This voice out of the unseen': love, death, and mourning in the writing of Margaret Oliphant / Elizabeth McCarthy -- Sheridan Le Fanu and the spectral empire / Nicholas Allen -- The true artistry of Oscar Wilde: sources and style in 'The Canterville ghost' / Anne Markey -- Flashlights and fiction: the development of the modern Irish ghost story / Julie Anne Stevens -- Things at once spectral and human: Robert Louis Stevenson's ghosts / Jenny McDonnell -- Pictures of the floating world: Keri Hulme's post-apocalyptic New Zealand / Melanie Otto -- 'Taking noiseless turns in the passage': phantoms and floor plans in Henry James' The turn of the screw / Dara Downey -- 'The consecration of his enterprise': Henry James' 'The real right thing' / Stephen Matterson -- Edith Wharton's wartime ghosts / Ann Patten -- Hideous doughnuts and haunted housewives: Gothic undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's domestic humour / Bernice M. Murphy -- A 'dramar in reel life': freaky dolls, M.R. James and modern children's ghost stories / Jane Suzanne Carroll -- Hauntedness: Edgar Allen Poe and Chuck Palahniuk / Philip Coleman.
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