ABSTRACT
Ghosts represent a process of transport across boundaries, between times and places: the freight they carry is emotion, memory, and trauma. If ghosts travel by air and rail, drive cars, and even hitchhike, this raises questions about ghostly mobility, spectral circulation, and uncanny transportation. If “mobility has been central to the constitution of the modern” then the uncanny mobilities that constitute the geostructures of the spectral equally constitute the inevitable but unacknowledged dark side of modernity. Travelling is often a lonely activity, and the empty station platform or the deserted late-night train can be uncanny places, set apart from the normal everyday world around them. The ghost story stands for its readers as a substitute journey from the land of the living to the domain of the dead across debatable territories where the various interact. Journeys of one form or another are a characteristic element of ghost stories, and have been for as long as stories have been told.
