Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in June 2022 by the University of Wales Press. Her next book, a study of the 1996 film The Craft, will be published by Auteur/Liverpool University Press in summer 2023. She has published in numerous academic journals and regularly provides DVD audio-commentaries and video essays for horror releases.

"Miranda Corcoran makes the best guides to the rich ghost lore of the United States, bringing a rare wisdom to the subject in this eloquent, insightful and compulsively readable book."– Susan Owens, author of The Ghost: A Cultural History"Spook show, cautionary tale and homage to the quirky, spiced with a pinch of Freud and Derrida – a witness to the other America, whose swampy soul remains captive to the unquietly dead."– Fortean Times

Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in June 2022 by the University of Wales Press. Her next book, a study of the 1996 film The Craft, will be published by Auteur/Liverpool University Press in summer 2023. She has published in numerous academic journals and regularly provides DVD audio-commentaries and video essays for horror releases.

"Miranda Corcoran makes the best guides to the rich ghost lore of the United States, bringing a rare wisdom to the subject in this eloquent, insightful and compulsively readable book."– Susan Owens, author of The Ghost: A Cultural History"Spook show, cautionary tale and homage to the quirky, spiced with a pinch of Freud and Derrida – a witness to the other America, whose swampy soul remains captive to the unquietly dead."– Fortean Times

Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature at University College Cork. Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in June 2022 by the University of Wales Press. Her next book, a study of the 1996 film The Craft, will be published by Auteur/Liverpool University Press in summer 2023. She has published in numerous academic journals and regularly provides DVD audio-commentaries and video essays for horror releases.

"Miranda Corcoran makes the best guides to the rich ghost lore of the United States, bringing a rare wisdom to the subject in this eloquent, insightful and compulsively readable book."– Susan Owens, author of The Ghost: A Cultural History"Spook show, cautionary tale and homage to the quirky, spiced with a pinch of Freud and Derrida – a witness to the other America, whose swampy soul remains captive to the unquietly dead."– Fortean Times