OWEN DAVIES is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has appeared as an authority on witchcraft and magic on television and is author of numerous articles and books including Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951, A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset and Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History.

'The Haunted' is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context, and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and historically illuminating.