International and cross-historical in scope, this series focuses on cultural manifestations of, and imaginative encounters with, the broader applications of the ideas associated with the horror genre, specifically: hauntology, spectrality, the weird, the eerie and the uncanny. Carving new territory within and adjacent to horror and the Gothic, the series will examine the ongoing fascination with all that is ghostly and haunting in literary and cultural studies and texts. The first series to focus on the melancholia produced by the lingering revenants of the past and the ‘lost futures’ so central to the critical concepts of hauntology and spectrality, its inevitable focus on the ghostly will: extend discussions of horror and horrific fictions make it well-placed for analysis of contemporary and emergent genres such as folk horror draw out new readings of more familiar or historical texts through the lens of hauntology generate new, contemporary interpretations and critical understandings of outlier texts and ideas allow for a broader consideration of the political implications of haunted and horrifying texts.