ghost stories Archives - Edinburgh University Press Blog

The Pharmakon of Shame

Séan Kennedy and Joseph Valente, editors of Irish Shame, explore the intricate relationship between empathy and shame in this blog.

May 7, 2025
Read more: The Pharmakon of Shame

Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue

Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.

Carla Hepburn
January 31, 2020

Christmas hauntings

Catherine Belsey discusses our love for ghost stories. Follow her on a spine-tingling journey of our facination with Christmas hauntings.

Carla Hepburn
December 4, 2019

The Pharmakon of Shame

Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue

Christmas hauntings

The Pharmakon of Shame

Decolonizing the human: Beginning from Edward Said’s humanism

Arriving with Deleuze

Five essential Shakespeare plays on radio

Q&A with the author of Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century