A history of the modern British ghost story Introduction: Even the dead will not be safe A failed modernity: the ghost story as the bad conscience of the historical novel Fragment and totality: the ghost story and early Victorian realism Supernatural naturalism: the golden age of the ghost story Ghosts that a white man can see: the ghost story and empire I had not thought death had undone so many: modernism and the ghost The ghost story and magic realism Conclusion: Ghosts and history.