Introduction. Theories of the ghost in a transhispanic context / Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Amanda L. Petersen -- Ghostly encounters: haunted histories. The museum of memory: spectral presences and metaphoric re-membering / Megan Corbin ; The bright future of the ghost: memory in the work of Javier Marías / Isabel Cuñado ; The spectrality of political violence: exhuming Guatemala's haunted past in Tanya Maria Barrientos's Family resemblance and Sylvia Sellers's When the ground turns in its sleep / Susana S. Martínez -- The persistence of violence: trauma as haunting. Apparitions and absence: spectrality in contemporary novels of the disappeared / Karen Wooley Martin ; The literalization of trauma's specter and the problematization of time in Aparecidos / Charles St-Georges ; Phantom children: spectral presences and the violent past in two films of contemporary Spain / Sarah Thomas ; Fog instead of land: spectral topographies of disappearance in Colombia's recent literature and film / Juliana Martínez -- Still images: the living and the dead. Framing and feeling immigration: haunting visuality and alterity in Ramito de Hierbabuena / N. Michelle Murray ; Memento Mori: photography and narrative in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar / Marta Sierra -- Invisible hands: specters of the market economy. Cubagua's ghosts / Juan Pablo Llupi ; Portraits of the walking dead: transgressing genres and (in)visible demographics in Maurice Echeverría María del Carmen / Caña Jiménez ; Haunting capitalism: Biutiful, the specter, and fantasies of the global market / Victoria L. Garrett and Edward M. Chauca.