This collection of articles looks at ghost stories ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary movies from different perspectives, both interdisciplinary and international. Spectral phenomena from Antarctic literature to Haitian Voodoo, Russian poetry to Irish novels are discussed in relation to their places in history and the media.

The complete series of films based on the popular Inner Sanctum Mystery radio show of the 1940's. Calling Dr. Death: A distraught doctor is tormented by voices in his head that are urging him to end his unhappy marriage forever. Weird Woman: Sorcery and superstition take a walk down the aisle when a professor marries a woman raised in the jungle by voodoo witchcraft practitioners and then dismisses her ominous warnings. Dead Man's Eyes: When an artist...