Haunted

“Mr. Braudy’s narrative spans centuries, continents and genres high and low, from the Sirens that tempted Odysseus to the demons Sarah Michelle Gellar faced down in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”—Andrew Hazlett, Wall Street Journal

“Braudy is deft and comprehensive, a veritable Linnaeus of the underworldly oversoul. . . . He also has a kangaroo capacity for crossing huge distances at a bound, moving with equal zest and confidence among biblical, classical, medieval, Enlightenment and Hollywood figures and conceits.”—Gregory Maguire, New York Times Book Review

“A worthy book—impeccably researched, fluently written and dispassionate in just the way professional historians admire.”—Gerard DeGroot, Times (UK)

“[Displays] an impressive depth of knowledge. . . . Thanks to the way Braudy has reframed the vast canvas on which stories of horror and terror are depicted, I don’t think I will ever watch a horror movie quite the same way again.”—Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal

“Our fears are quite complicated, and, as Braudy demonstrates, the study of them is necessarily interdisciplinary. . . . Braudy focuses primarily on the convergence of various issues and debates that arose in the realms of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, science, psychology, and the arts that have shaped how we imagine the monstrous.”—Adam Golub, American Literary Histor

“The breadth of Braudy’s narrative is simply astounding. Page by page Braudy whisks readers from literary works known only to experts to pop culture media. . . . Haunted displays its author’s sharp intellect coupled with a keen sense of observation that takes in all aspects of human culture.”—Joshua Caleb Smith, Reading Religion

Finalist for the 2016 Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction category