Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. George Lipsitz

The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny. American Studies International

Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book. Charles Lemert