Spirits, Ghosts, Spiritualism, the Afterworld

• General
  • Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis and W.M.S. Russell, eds. The Folklore of Ghosts, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1981. 271p. A collection of academic essays about ghosts and folklore. About half of the book deals with recent ghost folklore, and about half covers ghosts in other historical eras.
  • Spencer, John and Anne Spencer. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. London: Headline, 1992. 408p.
• Brazil
  • Hess, David J. Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. 260p.
• Classical Greece and Rome
  • Cumont, Franz. After Life In Roman Paganism, Yale University Press, 1922. 225p.
  • Knight, William. Elysion: On Ancient Greek and Roman Beliefs Concerning a Life After Death, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970. 208p.
  • Toynbee, J.M.C. Death and Burial in the Roman World, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971, 1996. 336p. Originally published in 1971 by Cornell University Press. Includes chapters on beliefs about the afterlife, funerary rites, and cemetaries and tombs.
• Egypt
  • Romano, James F. Death, Burial, and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1990. 41p.
• Great Britain
  • Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. 314p.
• Iceland
  • Swatos Jr., William H. and Loftur Reimar Gissurarson. Icelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity in Iceland, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997. 269p.
• India
  • Freed, Ruth S. and Stanley A. Freed. Ghosts: Life and Death in North India. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1993. 396p. Bibliography, illustrations.
• Japan
  • Iwasaka, Michiko and Barre Toelken. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends, Logan, UT: Utah University Press, 1994. 138p.
• United States
  • Hauck, Dennis William. The National Directory of Haunted Places. Sacramento: Athanor Press, 1994. 402p.