It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For ...

This book materialized unannounced on my desk, and I was underwhelmed by the cover: a gauzy image of a see-through young girl, staring wistfully at a blue tricycle in an empty room (a high-school ...

Borley’s haunts included a tall stranger in a top hat who paid bedside calls on unsuspecting parlor maids, an aged family retainer long since dead, a lurking prowler who went without a hat and without ...

Literary representations of ghosts and demons often reflect the anxieties of communities experiencing social, religious or ...

Looking for something new to read during the upcoming Halloween season? Acclaimed author Kim Newman (Anno Dracula) has a stand-alone novel entitled An English Ghost Story heading our way in early ...

Which do you think are funnier? Brits in the United States (think "Ruggles of Red Gap") or Americans in England (think Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost"). In "Ruggles" a proper English butler is ...

A hooded figure was caught on camera outside Chester Castle in the middle of the night after staff were alerted to ‘unusual movement’ English Heritage has shared images of an “unexplained” apparition ...

Are there ghosts in “Ghosts”? Short answer: You bet. Long answer: Well, that is what reading this wonderful novel is finally all about -- considering the question, “What is a ghost?” Or maybe not. The ...

Ibsen's play was meat too strong for its 1881 public, and the private stagings that managed to get past the first decade’s-worth of bans around Europe attracted criticism in which “loathsome”, ...