Double rooms from £89. THINK LOCAL Charles Rennie Mackintosh's artistic ghost looms large over Glasgow.
Schumpeter died in 1950, but his ghost looms large over Joyce Appleby's splendid new account of the "relentless revolution" unleashed by capitalism from the 16th century onward.
Byron is an irresistible character for many writers: try Paul West's Lord Byron's Doctor, written from Polidori's point of view, for a convincing portrait of an erotomaniac club-footed guru, while Byron's ghost looms throughout Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
When I asked how he combines the sedentary life of a composer with the itineracy of his conducting career, venerable ghosts loomed behind him.
Nothing will ever erase that horror but a victory over Argentina would make the ghosts loom less menacingly over the Mineirão in future – particularly if it adds to the growing fear in Argentina that the country may not qualify for the next World Cup.
The iconic image of the ghost ship, looming empty out of the Atlantic fogs and sailing on to eternity unmanned, has been taken up by generations of writers, from the anonymous authors of Edwardian penny dreadfuls to Stephen King.
While his cast's professionalism may have been a boon, Snyder's task on Watchmen was not helped much by the looming ghost of Moore, who maintains something of a reputation as a surly Northampton hermit.
But such ghosts forever loom, and Mr Brink pulls them close.
He talked about this in what might be his most famous review, of Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks": [T]he fall of 1968 was such a terrible time: I was a physical and mental wreck, nerves shredded and ghosts and spiders looming and squatting across the mind.
John Gielgud played Hamlet in 1933 and more than 30 years later directed Richard Burton in the role on Broadway in 1964, playing the ghost himself as a looming shadow.
