A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Ghosts
Addison. (On apparitions). Spectator 12 (14 March 1711). and 419 (2 July 1712).
American Phrenological Journal. "Cases of Spectral Illusion Confirmatory of Phrenology." American Phrenological Journal 1.6 (1838): 135-41.
Apparitions: Supernatural Occurrences, Demonstrative of the Soul's Immortality. London, 1799.
Arias, Rosario, and Patricia Pulham, eds. Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Possessing the Past. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Armstrong, Tim. Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2000.* (Typology, mourning, ghosts, death).
Barbeito Varela, Manuel, Margarita Estévez Saá, Susana Jiménez Placer and Jorge Sacido Romero. "Tracing Ghosts: Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction." Abstract. In Actas XXVIII Congreso Internacional / International Conference AEDEAN. CD-ROM. Valencia: U de València, 2005.*
Barbeito Varela, J. Manuel, Margarita Estévez Saá, Susana Jiménez Placer and Jorge Sacido Romero. "The Trope of the Ghost in Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Literature." In Proceedings of the 29th AEDEAN Conference: Universidad de Jaén 15 al 20 diciembre 2005. CD-ROM. Ed. Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes et al. Jaén: AEDEAN / Servicio de Publicaciones U de Jaén, 2006. 81-84.*
Belsey, Catherine. Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History. 2019.
Borges, Jorge Luis. "Lord Halifax's Ghost Book." El Hogar 25 Dec. 1936. Rpt. in Borges, Miscelánea. Barcelona: Random House Mondadori-DeBols!llo, 2011. 740-41.*
Bowen, John. "Performing Business, Training Ghosts: Transcoding Nickleby." ELH 63.1 (Spring 1996): 153-76.*
Briefel, Aviva. "What Some Ghosts Don't Know: Spectral Incognizance and the Horror Film." Narrative 17.1 (Jan. 2009): 95-110.*
Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre. Des Hallucinations: ou, Histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, des rêves, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme. 1845. English trans. 1850.
_____. A History of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism and Sommambulism. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1855.
Brogan, Kathleen. Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature. UP of Virginia, 1999.*
Browne, Thomas (Sir). "Compendiously of many questionable Customs, Opinions, Pictures, Practices, and Popular Observations." "Of some Others." Pseudodoxia Epidemica 5.22-23. In The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed. Charles Sayle. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1927. 2.264-75; 276-82.*
Brujas, demonios y fantasmas. Lérida: Ed. U de Lleida, 1999.
Buse, Peter, and Andrew Scott, eds. Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History. Houndmills: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1999.*
Calmet, Augustine. (Abbé). Traité sur les apparitions des anges, des démons & des esprits et sur les revenans et vampires de Hongrie, de Boheme, de Moravie & de Silesie. 1746, vol. II 1751.
Caraher, Brian. "The 'Guilty Hand' of Northern Ghosts: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth as Melodramas of Horrror." In Caraher, Trespassing Tragedy: Melodramas of Horror. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
Castle, Terry. "Phantasmagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie." Critical Inquiry 15 (Autumn 1988). (U of Chicago P).
_____. "Phantasmagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie." In Castle,The Female Thermometer. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. 140-67.*
_____. "Spectral Politics: Apparition Belief and the Romantic Imagination." In Castle,The Female Thermometer. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. 168-88.*
Chambers' Miscellany. "Spectral Illusions." Chambers' Miscellany of Instructive and Entertaining Tracts. Rev. ed. William and Robert Chambers. London: W. and R. Chambers, 1872.
Cotterill, Rowland. "'Sunt aliquid manes: Personalities, Personae and Ghosts in Augustan Poetry." In Post-Structuralist Classics. Ed. Andrew Benjamin. London: Routledge, 1988. 227-44.*
Davis, Natalie Zemon. "Ghosts, Kin, and Progeny: Some Features of Family Life in Early Modern France." Daedalus 106 (1977).
Defoe, Daniel. An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. London, 1727.
_____. An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. In Defoe, Novels and Miscellaneous Works. Vol. 18.
Didi-Huberman, Georges. L'image survivante: Histoire de l'art et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg. (Paradoxe). Paris: Minuit.
Dufresnoy, Lenglet (Abbé). Traité historique et dogmatique sur les apparitions, les visions et les révélations particulières. Paris, 1751.
Dunsany (Lord). Gods, Men and Ghosts. New York: Dover.
Eco, Umberto. Semilogia quotidiana. Fabbri-Bompiani,.
_____. La estrategia de la ilusión. Trans. Edgardo Oviedo. Barcelona: Lumen, 1986. Trans. of Semiologia quotidiana.*
Encyclopédie. "Apparitions." Encyclopédie: ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Ed. Denis Diderot et al. Paris, 1751. 3.546.
Estévez Saá, Margarita, and Susana Mª Jiménez Placer. "Uses of the Trope of the Ghost at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century." In AEDEAN XXX: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. [Huelva, 2006]. Ed. María Losada Friend et al. Huelva: U de Huelva, 2007.*
Eyriès, Jean-Baptiste Benoît. Fantasmagoriana, ou Recueil d'Histories d'Apparitions, de Spectres, Revenans, Fantômes, etc.; traduit de l'allemand, par un Amateur. Paris, 1812.
Ferenczi, Sandor. "Espectrofobia." 1915. In Ferenczi, Psicoanálisis. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981. 2.253-55.*
Ferriar, John. An Essay towards a Theory of Apparitions. London, 1813.
García Gual, Carlos. "Fantasmas femeninos de la Grecia antigua." In García Gual, La luz de los lejanos faros: Una defensa apasionada de las humanidades. Barcelona: Planeta-Ariel, 2017. 127-39.*
García Landa, José Angel. "Tres historias de fantasmas." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 1 June 2008.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2008/060102-tres-historias-de-fantasmas.php
2008
_____. "Existencias fantasmales." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 14 Nov. 2010.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2010/11/existencias-fantasmales.html
2010
_____. "Existencias fantasmales." Ibercampus 13 Dec. 2010.*
http://www.ibercampus.es/articulos.asp?idarticulo=14513
2013 DISCONTINUED
Gibert, Teresa. "The Politics and Poetics of Thomas King's Textual Hauntings." In Postcolonial Ghosts. Ed. Melanie Joseph-Vilain and Judith Misrahi-Barak. (Les Carnets du Cerpac, 8). Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2009.
Gougenheim, G. "L'Inventeur du mot fantasmagorie." Vie et Langage 49 (April 1956): 160-62.
Grant, Douglas. The Cock Lane Ghost. London: Macmillan, 1965.
Haining, Peter. Ghosts: The Illustrated History. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1974.
Hall, Radclyffe, and Una Troubridge. "A Veridical Apparition." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 20 (April 1921): 78-88.
Hibbert, Samuel. Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Cause. London, 1825.
Jewsbury, Maria Jane. Phantasmagoria; or, Sketches of Life and Literature. 2 vols. London, 1825.
Jiménez Placer, Susana Mª. "Ghosts, Words, Memories and Stories in Katherine Anne Porter's 'Old Mortality' and Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street." In Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference. Ed. M. J. Lorenzo Modia et al. CD-ROM: A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2008. 849-58.*
Joseph-Vilain, Melanie, and Judith Misrahi-Barak, eds. Postcolonial Ghosts. (Les Carnets du Cerpac, 8). Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2009.
Keskinen, Mikko. "Reading Phantom Minds: Marie Darrieussecq’s Naissance des fantômes and Ghosts' Body Language." In Theory of Mind and Literature. Ed. Paula Leverage et al. Purdue UP, 2011. 201-18.
Lang, Andrew. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. London: Longmans, 1897.
Lavater, Lewes. Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by Night. 16th century. Selection. In Hamlet. Ed. Cyrus Hoy. 2nd ed. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 1992.*
Leslie, Shane (Sir). Shane Leslie's Ghost Book. 1955.
Life After Death: or, The History of Apparitions, Ghosts, Spirits, or Spectres. London: 1758.
Marías, Javier. "Menos mal que hay fantasmas." In Marías. Cuando los tontos mandan. Barcelona: Penguin Random House - Alfaguara, 2018. 189-91.*
Miller, J. Hillis. "The 'Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect', or How to Raise a Ghost with Words: The Sense of the Past." In Miller, Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James. New York: Fordham UP, 2005. 291-326.*
Nashe, Thomas. The Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of Apparitions. 1594.
_____. The Terrors of the Night. In The Works of Thomas Nashe. Ed. R. B. McKerrow. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966-74. Vol. 1.
_____.The Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse of Apparitions. 1594. In Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil, Summer's Last Will and Testament, The Terrors of the Night, The Unfortunate Traveller and Selected Writings. Ed. Stanley Wells. (Stratford-upon-Avon Library 1). London: Arnold, 1964.
Nicholson, William. "Narrative and Explanation of the Appearance of Phantoms and other Figures in the Exhibition of the Phantasmagoria." Nicholson's Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, snd the Arts 1(February 1802): 148-50.
Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich. "Memoir on the Appearance of Spectres or Phantoms occasioned by Disease, with Psychological Remarks." In Nicholson's Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts 6 (November 1803): 161-79.
Newnham, William. An Essay on Superstition: Being an Inquiry into the Effects of Physical Influence on the Mind, in the Production of Dreams, Visions, Ghosts, and other Supernatural Appearances. London, 1830.
Ollier, Charle. The Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens. 1848.
Ottway, Thomas. Spectre: or News from the Invisible World. London, 1836.
Phantasmagoria: Authentic Relations of Apparitions and Visions. London, 1805.
Phantasmagoria: or, The Development of Magical Deception. London, 1803.
"Phantasmagoriana." Blackwood's Magazine 3 (August 1818): 589-96.
Priborkin, Klarina. "Mother/Daughter Mind Reading and Ghostly Intervention in Toni Morrison’s Beloved." In Theory of Mind and Literature. Ed. Paula Leverage et al. Purdue UP, 2011. 229-46.
Radcliffe, John Neutten. Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites: Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural. London, 1854.
Railo, Eino. The Haunted Castle. London, 1927.
Richardson, Maurice. "The Psychoanalysis of Ghost Stories." The Twentieth Century 166 (1959): 427-28.
Sacido Romero, Jorge "Failed Exorcism: Kurtz's Spectral Status and Its Ideological Function in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'." Atlantis 33.2 (Dec. 2011): 43-60.*
Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ensayo sobre la visión de espectros y lo que se relaciona con ella." In Schopenhauer, Parerga y Paralipómena I. Madrid: Trotta, 2009. 249-328.*
Stanco, Michele. "'Talking of dreams'. Illusione fantasmatica e malinconia in Shakespeare." In Co(n)texts. Implicazioni testuali. Ed. Carla Locatelli. Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento - Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Storiche, 2000. 307-41.
Sylvester, Joshua. "Sonnet ('They say that shadowes of deceased ghosts')." From Posthumi (Sonnet 16; Works, 1641). In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946.*
_____. "Sonnet (They say the shadowes of decesased ghosts)." From Posthumi (Works, 1641). In García Landa, Vanity Fea March 2018.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2018/03/posthumi.html
2018
Taylor, Joseph. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, Developed. 1815.
A View of the Invisible World: or, A General History of Apparitions. London, 1752.
Weightman, Mary. The Friendly Monitor: or, dialogues for youth against the Fear of Ghosts, and other Irrational Apprehensions, with Reflections on the Power of the Imagination and the Folly of Superstition. London, 1791.
Wolfreys, Julian. Victorian Haunting: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny. Houndmills: Palgrave.
Wynne-Davies, Marion. "Ophelia's Ghost." In Global Shakespeare. Ed. José Manuel González et al. Special issue of Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 25 (Nov. 2012): 151-66.* (RSC, Hamlet)
Zamora, Lois Parkinson. "Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction." In Magical Realism. Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 497-550.*
Anthologies
Cox, Michael. The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
Dalby, Richard, ed. The Virago Book of Ghost Stories. c. 2006. (Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E. Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Warton, Lisa St Aubin de Teran, Marjorie Bowen).
Hampden, John. Introd. to Ghost Stories. Anthology. (Everyman's Library, 952). London: Dent; New York: Dutton.
Herráez, Miguel, ed. 13 de fantasmas: Una antología de relatos espectrales. Illust. Antonio Lorente. Trans. Alejandro Tobar. Zaragoza: Edelvives, 2025.*
Schonhorn, Manuel, ed. Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal. Los Angeles: Augustan Reprint Society and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1965.
Films
Ghost. With Demi Moore.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Dir Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Rex Harrison, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Natalie Wood. USA, 1947.*
Half Light. Writer and dir. Craig Rosenberg. Cast: Demi Moore, Hans Matheson, James Cosmo, Henry Ian Cusick, Kate Isitt, Therese Bradley. Prod dir. Guy Tannahill. Music by Brett Rosenberg. Ed. Bill Murphy. Prod. des. Don Taylor. Photog. Ashley Rowe; Exec. prod. Andreas Schmid. Prod. Clive Parsons, Andreas Grosch, Steve Samuels, Joe B. Michaels, Garh H. Drabinsky. VIP Medienfilms 3/Half Light / Rising Star, 2005.
_____. Half Light. DVD. SpeakUp / Filmax, 2007.*
Los otros. Dir. Alejandro Amenábar. With Nicole Kidman. Music by Alejandro Amenábar. Prod Tom Cruise. Warner, 2001.*
The Sixth Sense. Writer and dir. M. Night Shyamalan. Cast: Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Haley Joel Osment. Music: James Newton Howard. Ed. Andrew mondshein. Prod. des. Larry Fulton. Photogl: Tak Fukimoto. Exec. prod. Sam Mercer. Prod. Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel. Hollywood Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment. Spanish VHS: El sexto sentido. Buena Vista Home Video, 2001.*
Internet resources
Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet's Ghost. Online course (Harvard University) at EdX.*
https://www.edx.org/course/hamlets-ghost-harvardx-hum3-1x
2016
Literature
Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo. "La Noche de Difuntos." In Vosotros los que leéis aún estáis entre los vivos. Ed. Javier Pérez Andújar. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2005. 59-68.*
Carlyle, Thomas. "Un auténtico fantasma." From Sartor Resartus. 1834. In Antología de la Literatura Fantástica. Ed. Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. 1965. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1983. 1989. 1991. 148.*
Carroll, Lewis. Phantasmagoria. 1876.
Darrieussecq, Marie. Naissance des fantômes.
Defoe, Daniel. A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal. London, 1706.
_____. True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal. In Great English Short Stories. Ed. Lewis Melville and Reginald Hargreaves. London: Harrap, 1931. 26-33.*
_____. A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal. In Acounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal. Ed. Manuel Schonhorn. Los Angeles: Augustan Reprint Society and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1965.
Dickens, Charles. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Christmas tale. 1848.
_____. El hechizado. In Dickens, Obras completas. Trans. and notes by José Méndez Herrera. Madrid: Aguilar. Rpt. Madrid: Santillana-Aguilar, 2005. (Trans. of The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain).
Edwards, Amelia B. "La diligencia fantasma." In Vosotros los que leéis aún estáis entre los vivos. Ed. Javier Pérez Andújar. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2005. 77-98.*
Eyriès, Jean-Baptiste Benoît. Fantasmagoriana, ou Recueil d'Histories d'Apparitions, de Spectres, Revenans, Fantômes, etc.; traduit de l'allemand, par un Amateur. Paris, 1812. (Anon. trans. by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès; from German tales by Karl August Musäus, Johan August Apel, Friedrich Laun, Heinrich Clauren et al.).
Ghríofa, Doireann Ní. Un fantasma en la garganta. (Narrativa Sexto Piso). Madrid: Sexto Piso. c. 2022.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Histoires de fantômes du Japon. Illust. Benjamin Lacombe. (Métamorphose). Editions Soleil, 2019.
_____. Historias de fantasmas de Japón. Preface by Matthias Hayek. Illust. Benjamin Lacombe. Trans. Alejandro Tobar (tales) and Isabel Soto (preface). Zaragoza: Edelvives, 2019. 4th ed. 2021.*
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. "A Spirit's Return." Poem. 1830. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 818-23.*
Hoffmann, E. T. A. "Historia de fantasmas." In Vosotros los que leéis aún estáis entre los vivos. Ed. Javier Pérez Andújar. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2005. 29-40.*
Ibsen, Henrik. Ghosts.
Ireland, I. A. Visitations. 1919.
Irving, Washington. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollowy."
_____. "Dolph Heyliger." Story. In Irving (ps. "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.") Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists: A Medley. Tales and sketches. 1822. (Ghost story, haunted house).
_____. "The Storm-Ship." In Irving (ps. "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.") Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists: A Medley. Tales and sketches. 1822.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. many editions.
James, M. R. 'Casting the Runes' and Other Ghost Stories. Ed. Michael Cox. (The World's Classics). Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1987.*
Jaramillo Agudelo, Darío. Novela con fantasma. Novel. Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2004.
Joyce, James. "Definición del fantasma." From Ulysses. 1921. In Antología de la Literatura Fantástica. Ed. Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. 1965. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1983. 1989. 1991. 221.*
King, Stephen. "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates." Story. Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
_____. "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates." In King, Just after Sunset. 2008. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009. 365-78.*
Le Fanu, J. Sheridan. "The Ghost and the Bone Setter." From The Purcell Papers. Online at ebooks@adelaide.edu.au.*
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lefanu/purcell/chapter1.html
2010
_____. "El fantasma de madam Crowl." Story. In Antología de cuentos de terror, II: De Dickens a M. R. James. Ed. and trans. Rafael Llopis. Madrid: Taurus / Alianza Editorial, 1981. 27-45.* (Orig. pub. Madrid: Taurus, 1963).
Lightman, Alan. Ghost: A Novel. Pantheon, 2007.
Litt, Toby. Ghost Story. Novel. 2004.
Mahon, Derek."Ghosts." Poems.
Oates, Joyce Carol. The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies. Short stories. 1974.
Sabatini, Rafael. "The Ghost of Tronjolly." In Great English Short Stories. Ed. Lewis Melville and Reginald Hargreaves. London: Harrap, 1931. 885-98.*
Schiller, Friedrich. The Ghost-Seer: or, The Apparitionist. Novel. 1789. London, 1795.
Shakespeare. Richard III. many editions
_____. Julius Caesar. many editions
_____. Hamlet. many editions.
_____. Macbeth. many editions.
Music
Rani, Hania. "Ghosts (Official Album Video)." Audio. YouTube (Gondwana Records) 6 Oct. 2023.*
2026
Video
Mas Arellano, Guillermo. "Hauntología, liminalidad y teoría general de la basura | Pura Virtud." Video interview with Agustín Fernández Mallo. YouTube (Pura Virtud: Cine y Literatura) 5 July 2026.*
2026
