Introduction : a future for haunting / Peter Buse and Andrew Scott -- Spectres of Engels / Willy Maley -- 'Something tremendous, something elemental' : on the ghostly origins of psychoanalysis / Roger Luckhurst -- Phantasmagoria : Walter Benjamin and the poetics of urban modernism / Christina Britzolakis -- Spectre and impurity : history and the transcendental in Derrida and Adorno / Nigel Mapp -- Anachrony and anatopia : spectres of Marx, Derrida and gothic fiction / Ruth Parkin-Gounelas -- Theft, terror, and family values : the mysteries and domesticities of Udolpho / Natalka Freeland -- The medium of exchange / Mandy Merck -- The postcolonial ghost story / Ken Gelder and Jane M. Jacobs -- The machine in the ghost : spiritualism, technology, and the 'direct voice' / Steven Connor -- Angels in the architecture : the economy of the supernatural / Clive Bloom -- The other side of Plato's wall / Ralph Noyes