Ruth Heholt is Professor of Literature and Culture at Falmouth UniversityJoanne Ella Parsons is Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at Falmouth University

• Introduction: Ruth Heholt and Joanne Ella ParsonsPart I: Origins and histories1 Speaking from beyond the grave: The many roles of ghosts in early modern English popular literature – Brendan Walsh2 Unruly subjects: Apparitional property and spectral revenge in ‘The Drummer of Tedworth’ (1662–63) and its afterlives – Kirsten T. Saxton3 ‘It is midnight, my wedded’: Queer spectrality in the works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes – Joseph Crawford4 Raising the Holy Ghost in the Gothic: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights – Carol Margaret Davison5 Ghostly knowing laughter: Comic Gothic in the works of W.S. Gilbert – Rebecca Lloyd6 Queer spectres of the British Raj – Jamil Mustafa7 Unsafe spaces: Coercion, control, and the domestic in the ghostly Gothic tales of E. Nesbit – Ruth Heholt8 Navigating nautical timescapes: Ghosts and haunting in the Victorian and Edwardian maritime world – Karl BellPart II: The twentieth century and beyond9 Dark London, alienation, and female vulnerability in the modernist ghost stories of Violet Hunt and Marie Belloc Lowndes – Emma Liggins10 ‘The Companionship of the Dead’: Benevolent ghosts in the Irish civil war stories of Dorothy Macardle – Melissa Edmundson11 ‘An ill luck on the place’: Industrial activity and the vengeful past in three ghost stories by L.T.C. Rolt – William Hughes12 Cold War politics and spectral recycling: Andrew Klavan’s The Uncanny – Andrew Smith13 Lovely bones and settled scores: Contemporary women’s interweaving of ghost and crime stories – Gina Wisker14 Ghost time: spectral temporalities in Asian Gothic – Katarzyna Ancuta15 Spectral photographs: Ghostly memories, trauma, and the haunted past in the MCU’s Avengers franchise – Lorna Piatti-Farnell16 Trauma and resilience and being Black in America: the ghosts in Mariama Diallo’s Master (2022) and Margaret Brown’s Descendant (2022) – Ardel Haefele-ThomasIndex