In 1864, a peculiar book called "Spectropia" offered Victorian readers a scientific way to summon ghosts. As the Smithsonian reports, author J.H. Brown created this "toy book" to combat what he called ...

Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1, a special issue: HAUNTING II: Citations (March 2002), pp. 133-148 (16 pages) Many Victorian suburban ghost stories address anxieties ...

Each holiday season, I look forward to the new batch of Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories series from Biblioasis. This year marks the 10th anniversary of these beautifully designed pocket-sized books ...