Set in the haunted New England town of Bizenghast, the story follows Dinah, an orphaned teenager who is tasked with returning each night to an ancient mausoleum to free the ghosts within the building.
They stumble across an ancient mausoleum and after Dinah reads aloud from a plaque, she discovers that her name is written on a contract which binds her to return to the mausoleum every night to free the ghosts.
The awkward outsider and adolescent frees the ghost from the bathroom, forcing the family to confront a shadowy past.
In a remarkable speech he made last September in Gdansk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, Mr. Putin said he wanted a "relationship between Russia and Poland free from the ghosts of the past".
Moreover, Spurs will open a new £30m state-of-the-art training ground near Enfield shortly, so Villas-Boas will be walking into an office and a dressing room free of the ghosts of managers past.
The result is free verse, with the ghost of a hexameter serving as loose armature: The issue of line length poses a fundamental and perhaps an irresolvable dilemma.
When Granta magazine brought out a special India edition to mark the nation's "Golden Jubilee" year in 1997, the collection appeared to have a genuine sense of celebration, of a nation fighting to free itself from the ghost of colonial rule.
