Volume II of New Directions in The Ghost Story provides a further sixteen essays interrogating and reconsidering established canons in the ghost story tradition and recurring modes of analysis. Focusing on folklore, legends, historiography, and story telling across a range of media and genres, this volume covers topics from Arthurian Romances to haunted toilets, “superphysical” werewolves to the music of Kate Bush.
Jen Baker is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Warwick, UK, with research interests in and publications on child death, the Gothic, and the short form. She is editor of Minor Hauntings (2021).Henry Bartholomew is a Lecturer at the Global Banking School, UK. He is the editor of three anthologies of supernatural fiction and of a 2025 special issue of Gothic Studies on Algernon Blackwood.Joan Passey is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, UK, specialising in representations of coasts and seascapes and on the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present. She has edited anthologies with the British Library.
Innehållsförteckning
PART I: Reimagining Ghostly Folklores and Legends.- Chapter 1 Canine Spectres in Early Modern England.- Chapter 2 “Spirit Wolves”: The Rise of the Early Twentieth-Century “Superphysical” Werewolf Tale.- Chapter 3 The Nineteenth Century’s New Urban Ghosts: Spring-Heeled Jack & the Waterproof Cape Man.- Chapter 4 Ghostly Hauntings: How Contemporary Youth Literature Updates the Legend of La Llorona.- Chapter 5 Red or Blue? Haunted Toilets in Japanese Folklore and Contemporary Urban Legend.- Chapter 6 Giselle in Daytime: New Life for the Old Ghosts of Jilted Brides.- Chapter 7 Understanding Yakshi: The Female Ghost in Malayalam Cinema.- Chapter 8 Folk Ghosts and the Ethics of (Dis)remembering: The Story of ‘Molly’ Leigh and the Witch who Wasn’t.-PART II Haunted Historiographies and Spectral Storytelling.- Chapter 9 Ghosts, Duppies, and Colonial Violence in The White Witch of Rosehall.- Chapter 10 A Medieval Ghost Story: The Awntyrs Off Arthur and Ghostly Warnings in Medieval English Arthurian Romances.- Chapter 11 Spectral Remediations: The Ghost Stories of Extrapolation and Illustration.- Chapter 12 Reporting from the Spirit World: Ghostly Journalism at the Fin de Siècle.- Chapter 13 In the Half Light: Ghosts of Love, Memory and Mourning in the Songs of Kate Bush.- Chapter 14 “Remember me”: Commemorating Ghosts from Hamlet to Hamnet.- Chapter 15 Haunted Presences, Protagonists, and Players: Deathloop and Returnal as Mediated Ghost Stories.- Chapter 16 Ghosts in the Archive: In Search of New York’s Unknown Dead.
