Foreword / Katie Luber --
Introduction : America is haunted / Robert Cozzolino --
Destinies manifest / John Jota Leaños --
Hauntology / Maria del Pilar Blanco --
Uncanny spaces / Sarah Burns --
Phantasmagoria / Wendy Bellion --
"Things not tangible" : portraits, sitters and the supernatural / Rachael Z. DeLue --
Ghosts in the machines / Brandon Hodge --
How to paint a ghost around 1900 / Adam M. Thomas --
These unseen beings / Robert Cozzolino --
Magic's deconstruction of art, science, and religion / George P. Hansen --
Wilson Bentley's army of souls / Alexander Nemerov --
Bringing the invisible to light : aura and psychic photography / Michelle Donnelly --
Black black magic / Bridget R. Cooks --
The rootworker's worktable / Renée Stout --
Contemporary witch culture / Lacey Prpić Hedtke --
Goddess, body, and earth : feminist spirits in the 1970s / Rachel Middleman --
Popular culture and the paranormal/supernatural / Jeffrey A. Weinstock
Appendix: Octopus series.