What do they want, the ghosts that even in our age of science still haunt our storytelling? Do they come back to console or to threaten? Is Shakespeare's ghost in Hamlet a turning point in the history of ghost stories? Catherine Belsey uncovers the ancient sources the play relies on and thentraces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny up to the present day, from Homer and the Icelandic Sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Follow this vividly recounted ghostly trail through spooky stories from the past and present by Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill as well as recent films and troubling accounts of attested apparitions. It turns out thatghosts only want to be heard. | Tales Of The Troubled Dead by Catherine Belsey, Paperback | Indigo Chapters