CLIVE BLOOM Reader in English and American Studies at Middlesex UniversityCHRISTINA BRITZOLAKIS Lecturer in English at the University of WarwickSTEVEN CONNOR Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, University of LondonNATALKA FREELAND Assistant Professor of English at the University of AlbertaKEN GELDER Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Melbourne University, AustraliaJANE M. JACOBS Lecturer in Geography at Melbourne University, AustraliaROGER LUCKHURST Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of LondonWILLY MALEY Lecturer in English at the University of GlasgowNIGEL MAPP Research Fellow at the University of LeedsMANDY MERCK former editor of the film and television studies journal, ScreenRALPH NOYES Honorary Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research RUTH PARKIN-GOUNELAS Associate Professor of English at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Future for Haunting; P.Buse and A.Stott I: SPECTRALITY AND THEORY Specters of Engels; W.Maley 'Something Tremendous, Something Elemental': On the Ghostly Origins of Psychoanalysis; R.Luckhurst Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Poetics of Urban Modernism; C.Britzolakis Spectre and Impurity: History and the Transcendental in Derrida and Adorno; N.Mapp II: UNCANNY FICTIONS Anachrony and Anatopia: Specters of Marx, Derrida and Gothic Fiction; R.Parkin-Gounelas Theft, Terror, and Family Values: The Mysteries and Domesticities of Udolpho; N.Freeland The Medium of Exchange; M.Merck The Postcolonial Ghost Story; K.Gelder and J.M.Jacobs III: SPECTRAL CULTURE The Machine in the Ghost: Spiritualism, Technology, and the 'Direct Voice'; S.Connor Angles in the Architecture: the Economy of the Supernatural; C.Bloom The Other Side of Plato's Wall; R.Noyes Index

'Ghosts: Deconstruction, psychoanalysis, history'...includes...superb essays, searching dark and cobwebby nooks and passages in Victorian and modern thought.' - Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement Voted one of the best books of 1999 in the Times Literary Supplement by Marina Warner