Ghosts Seeking Substitutes: Female Suicide and Repetition

The idea of ghosts seeking substitutes both creates and controls horror. Unjust or unclean deaths not only leave traces, but reproduce themselves indefinitely. Here, Huntington focuses on the suicides within this category of unclean deaths, with other kinds of substitute-seeking ghosts as comparison...

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