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Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (A Ray and Pat Browne Book) (1st Edition) by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Editor) Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-299-19954-1 / 0299199541 ISBN-13: 978-0-299-19954-8 / 9780299199548 From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time. From the Puritans’ conviction that a thousand p |