“…The folkloristic study of legendary ghosts boasts a more prolific literature than legendary monsters. For a sampling of how folklorists approach ghosts, see Bennett 1999;Bronner 2012, 277-342;Browne 1976;Ellis 2003, 117-41;Goldstein, Grider, and Thomas 2007;Harris 2015;Hufford 1995;Iwasaka and Toelken 1994;Jones 1944;McNeil 1985;Montell 1975;Tucker 2007. In addition, metaphorical ghost spectrality literature (what Roger Lockhurst recognizes as meta-gothic haunted modernity literature) mingles with literal ghosts and invokes haunting metaphors but fails to investigate folklorists' core concerns.…”