Stories
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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
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Death and our digital ghosts
When we die, our data lives on. And as companies are increasingly spotting money-making opportunities from digital legacies, now could be the time to think about – and control – yours.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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Why zombies can’t help coming back
Although it might appear that zombies are a 20th-century phenomenon, created for the horror-movie industry, they’ve actually been around since medieval times. Find out what zombies like to do, and how to get rid of them.
Catalogue
- Books
Ghost stories in late Renaissance France : walking by night / Timothy Chesters.
Chesters, Timothy, 1976-Date: 2011- Books
Ghost stories for Darwin : the science of variation and the politics of diversity / Banu Subramaniam.
Subramaniam, Banu, 1966-Date: [2014]- Books
Visions of an unseen world : ghost beliefs and ghost stories in eighteenth-century England / Sasha Handley.
Handley, Sasha.Date: 2007- Books
Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : theories of vision in Victorian literature and science / Srdjan Smajic.
Smajic, Srdjan, 1974-Date: 2010- Pictures
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A young woman is sitting in a chair reading a story which has made her nervous. Engraving by R. Graves after R.W. Buss.
Buss, Robert William, 1804-1875.Reference: 33678i