EDITORIAL

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (OR GREY) With the change of season and the advent of autumn mists, our thoughts turn, naturally enough, to ghosts and ghostlore. Alan Murdie has recently edited a new edition of Andrew Green’s 1977 classic Phantom Ladies, a guide to British hauntings associated with female ghosts, and in this month’s cover story takes a fresh look at this most widely reported variety of British spook. But, as Alan points out, the continued ubiquity of phantom ladies across the British Isles and beyond can sometimes obscure some of the problems associated with investigating them: establishing identities for these apparitions can be extremely difficult, even when they are linked, as they are in popular imagination and tradition, to historical figures and specific places. But does the existence of…

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