Contents

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraphs

Introduction by SCOTT G. BRUCE

Suggestions for Further Reading

Acknowledgments

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE UNDEAD

Ancient Apparitions

I. Greek and Roman Remains

Odysseus in the House of Death

Pliny Contemplates the Existence of Ghosts

A Mistress of the Graves

II. 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

Notes

Index