From Pliny the Younger's story of an old man in chains haunting his house, through the stories of the Dybbuk, to the great gothic storytellers and the Blair Witch Project, in all cultures and times there is something here that won't go away; some fear that is legitimately being expressed – the continual return of the repressed.
Giles Fraser is priest-in-charge at St Mary's Newington in south London, and a Guardian writer Virtually all cultures have traditions of ghosts and haunting.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 1.37pm AEST04:37 You would have seen immigration minister Scott Morrison haunting the halls of the press gallery this morning.
Andy Jordan Wirksworth, Derbyshire Jonathan Freedland's interesting analysis of the "haunting" of Labour by its erstwhile "three-time election winner" omits a critically important ingredient in Blair's electoral success.
A small, round figure with a shy smile and a deceiving air of vagueness, carrying her camera in a wicker basket; the least tricksy and most mysterious of photographers, the most singular and haunting.
The brilliant footballer and the hopeless overindulger in Gazza came together in a visual tableau which, 13 years on, is haunting for any football fan to look back on.
Having won the Palme d'Or last week with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (below) visited London to open his haunting installation Phantoms of Nabua at BFI Gallery on the Southbank.
Nor were they satisfied by his promise to post consular officials in immigration offices throughout the United States to ensure that Mexican human rights are not trampled on.The spectre of mass deportations is haunting Mexicans.
The parallels between Europe in the early years of the 20th century and Asia a hundred years on were too many to ignore; haunting enough, indeed, to prompt worries about the possibility of another global confrontation.
This moment of bad luck sentenced him to years of illness, his slow death haunting the quietly unhappy but otherwise privileged Manhattan home he shared with his wife and only child.
