Christina Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, Australia.

This volume explores the spectral qualities of space, using the language of hauntings, to understand how absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something (that once was, and still is) there. Contributors navigate affective spaces that have the potential to threaten, destabilise and sometimes even comfort; ranging from former sites of violence and ruin to the nostalgic home, from haunting impressions in literature to spectral presences in architecture and photography.

Introduction: Locating Spectres

Christina Lee

PART I: Private Hauntings

1 The Haunted Spaces of 7/7: Memory, Mediatisation and Performance

John Tulloch

2 Dream House

Pippa Tandy

3 Home is Where the Hearth Was: Remembering and Place-Making a Vanished Town

Christina Lee

4 Unsettling Space and Time: Journey to Purton Ships' Graveyard

Lisa Hill

5 'Popping Up to See Pat': Attending Absence at Roadside Shrines

Elly Bavidge

PART II: Spectres of the Social

6 'Un aéroport-fantôme': The Ghost of Mirabel International Airport

Liz Millward

7 Zombie South: Cormac McCarthy's Architectures of the Undead

Daniel Cross Turner

8 Double Exposure: Rephotography and the Life of Place

László Munteán

9 Ghosts on Screen: The Politics of Intertemporality

Alison Landsberg

10 'Our Monuments Shall be the Maws of Kites': Laura Oldfield Ford and the Ghosts of Psychogeography Past

Christopher Collier

11 From Spectres of Horror to 'The Beautiful Death': Re-Corporealising the Desaparecidos of Argentina

Sonia M. Tascón