Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning – Charlotte Riddell (1867)

"Haunting and the appearance of specters or ghosts is one way [...] we are notified that what's been concealed, is very much alive and present, interfering precisely with those always incomplete forms of containment and repression ceaselessly directed towards us." (Avery Gordon xvi) Many a year ago, before chloroform was thought of, there lived in …