Luke Thurston is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004), the editor of Re-inventing the Symptom: Essays on the Final Lacan (2002), and the translator of works by Jean Laplanche and André Green.

• Prologue: Beyond My Notation Part I: Literary Hospitality 1. The Spark of Life 2. Zigzag: The Signalman Part II: Guests ◊ Ghosts 3. Broken Lineage: M. R. James 4. Ineffaceable Life: Henry James Part III: Hosts of the Living 5. A Loop in a Mesh: May Sinclair 6. Distant Music: Woolf, Joyce 7. Double-Crossing: Elizabeth Bowen Conclusion: The Ghostly Path Notes Bibliography Index

"A terrific book, tightly-argued, highly-disciplined, constantly making interconnections of a convincing kind between the examples; never obscure or wandering from the point, often witty and sharp in observation and deduction – a brilliant account of what goes on and what’s at stake when the ghost gets into the machine of narrative." - Professor Peter Barry, author of Beginning Theory"Literary Ghosts is a courageous book, unafraid to make room for the voices of capital-T Theory without allowing them to shout down the voices of fiction... If the ghostly voice is worth discussing, Thurston implies, then it is worth listening to, echoing (as it echoes us), and making it our own. Given such a compelling account, I agree with him." - Jennifer Bann, University of Glasgow, Review 19 "Thurston is ambitious in his theoretical scope... [his] book is a radical guest within the field of established Gothic readings of haunting. As hosts, it is our duty to welcome a study that advances our knowledge of the field significantly." - Matt Foley, The Gothic Imagination