'Sasha Handley's excellent study of the meaning, recording and use of ghost stories in the 'long eighteenth century' is a refreshing and much needed study.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'a very useful study of, and compendium of references to, ghosts beliefs and stories in early modern England.' Fabula 'this is another significant historical study of ghost belief, ... Handley's work helps rescue ghost stories from the footnotes of History, and relocates them as a key element of the beliefs and culture surrounding death and the fate of the soul.' Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

• Introduction: The Ghosts of Early Modern England; 1: Restoration Hauntings; 2: Printing the Preternatural in the Late Seventeenth Century; 3: A New Canterbury Tale; 4: Ghost Stories in the Periodical Press, c. 1700–c. 1750; 5: Confessional Cultures and Ghost Beliefs, c. 1750–c. 1800; 6: Landscapes of Belief and Everyday Life in Late Eighteenth-Century England; Conclusion