On Ghosts

In this short essay, Mary Shelley steps away from fiction to ask a personal question: why, in an age of reason and science, do we still want to believe in ghosts? She weighs skepticism against longing, recounts her own encounters with the uncanny, and makes a quietly moving case for why the impulse to believe survives even when the evidence doesn't.

A rare piece of nonfiction from the author of Frankenstein — brief, thoughtful, and a fascinating look at the mind behind one of literature's most enduring monsters.