Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index.

Ancient apparitions. Greek and Roman remains ; Odysseus in the house of death ; Pliny contemplates the existence of ghosts ; A mistress of the graves ; Early Christian hauntings ; Speaking with the dead in the Hebrew scriptures ; A ghost upon the waters ; Dreaming of the dead ; The discernment of the saints -- The autopsy of souls in late ancient thought. Evodius's inquiry: going forth from the body, who are we? ; Augustine's rejection of ghosts ; Pope Gregory the Great: how can the living help the dead? -- The ecology of the otherworld in dark age Europe. The vision of Barontus ; Dryhthelm returns from the dead -- Spectral servants of the church. Imperial torments ; Cluny and the feast of All Souls ; A lesbian ghost ; The haunting of the cloister ; Warnings to the living -- Night is the dead's dominion. Spirits of malice ; The blackened hearts of Stapenhill ; the evil Welshman ; Rampaging revenants -- The ghosts of war. Terror in Tonnerre ; Hellequin's horde ; An army white as snow -- Northern horrors. The ravenous dead ; Old ghosts, new laws -- Strange tales of mystery and terror. Recreation for an emperor ; The ghosts of Byland Abbey -- The reformation of the wraiths. Of ghostes and spirites walking by nyght ; When night draws swiftly darkling on -- Haunting the wings. The torments of Tantalus ; Hamlet, remember me.