TY - BOOK AU - Hay, Simon. AU - Simon Hay TI - A History of the Modern British Ghost Story SN - 9781349326150 U1 - 823.08 HAY PY - 1988/// CY - , England PB - : Palgrave Macmillan KW - Ghost Story KW - British Ghost Story KW - British History N2 - Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma ER -