Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ghosts, landscapes and social memory -- 1. Ghost armies: Memory, landscape and social haunting -- Haunting and the abyss -- Approaching the haunted house -- The emancipating and captivating dead -- Landscapes and their ghosts -- 2. Dark caves: Prehistory and the origins of social ghosts -- Prehistory and the origins of social forms -- John Berger and Chauvet -- Mind, cave, art -- The Himmerland Wings -- Mind, aurality and spectres -- 3. Revolutionary spirits: Marx, Engels and catastrophe -- Revolutionary hauntings -- The artifice of the archaic -- Marx, history and consciousness -- Gramsci, consciousness and repetition -- A genealogy of ghosts -- Reading The 18 Brumaire -- 4. Excavating spectres: Haunting and psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalytic hauntings -- Mind, body and social haunting -- Freud, Gradiva and the city of Pompeii -- Rethinking the Unheimlich -- The unhomed as rogue souls -- 5. Night spaces: The haunted house -- Houses and their histories -- House as haunted locale -- Nabokov's ghostly house -- The second ghost of Elsinore -- Pliny's ghosts -- 6. Zong spectres: Ghosts of the slave system -- The ghost ships -- The metrics of the dead -- The spectrics of the dead -- The warp and the weft of the dead -- 7. Ghastly fictions: Writing the catastrophe -- Fictions and hallucinations -- M.R. James and the English ghost -- Edith Wharton's hauntings -- Amyas Northcote's landscapes -- Henry James and the ghostly house -- 8. Nightvisiting songs: Performing the dead -- The haunting melody -- Folklore and nightvisiting songs -- Rendering visible the operatic spectres -- Theatrical ghosts as performers -- Voices of the dead -- 9. Spectral machines: Seeing social ghosts -- Ghosts in and of the machine -- Digital collections and archives