New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

Henry Bartholomew is a Lecturer at the Global Banking School, Birmingham. His work explores the ghost story, the Gothic, and weird fiction, and he has edited three story anthologies in these areas. His latest project is a special issue of Gothic Studies on the author Algernon Blackwood.Joan Passey is a Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, UK, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. She specialises in representations of coasts and seascapes in literature and culture, especially the Gothic. She regularly appears on BBC Radio 3 and has edited anthologies with the British Library.Jen Baker is a Lecturer in Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the editor of Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth (British Library, 2021). She is working on her first monograph on haunting expression and spectral embodiments of child death in the long nineteenth century.

• Chapter 1: At the Borderlands: A Haunted Introduction.- Part I: Tradition, Theory, Genre: New Directions.- Chapter 2: “Endless Time”: Hauntology in Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden.- Chapter 3: Literary Geography and the Ghost Story: Haunting, Narrative, and Spatiality in Lucy M. Boston’s The Children of Green Knowe .- Spectral Sounds: Ghost Stories on Audio Media.- Chapter 5: Unexpected Spectres: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman as Ghost Story.- Chapter 6: Hauntography: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Ghost Story.- Chapter 7: All That Solid Flesh Melts into Air: The Communist Manifesto as Proletarian Ghost Story.- Chapter 8: The Ghost Story in Latin American Neo-fantastic Literature: Francisco Tario and “Aureola o alvéolo”.- Chapter 9: “Something to Share?”: Ridiculous Society in BBC's Ghosts  Andrew McInnes.- Part II: Space, Place, and the Ecospectral.- Chapter 10: uburban Spirits: G. W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London and the Victorian Haunted-House.- Chapter 11: The Spectral Class: Female Servants in Victorian Ghost Stories  Colleen.- Chapter 12: “It Is In Our House Now”: Twin Peaks as Televisual Ghost Story.- Chapter 13: The Everyday Ghosts of Interwar England Nick Freeman.- Chapter 14: Graeco-Roman Haunted Sites: “Dark Tourism” in the Ancient.- Chapter 15: Ghost Gear and Cetacean Bodies: Stories of Spectral and Material Entanglement in the Necrocen.