This volume explores the spectral qualities of space, using the language of hauntings, to understand how absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something (that once was, and still is) there. At its core, it asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? The book takes Jacques Derrida's notion of hauntology and his now-famous characterisation of the spectre as that in which "time is out of joint" as a starting point to examine entanglements of past, present and future. Contributors navigate affective spaces that have the potential to threaten, destabilise and sometimes even comfort; ranging from former sites of violence and ruin to the nostalgic home, from haunting impressions in literature to spectral presences in architecture and photography.
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