Call for Papers: Ghosts and the Uncanny

The Canadian literary journal, Descant, is calling for submissions on the theme, “Ghosts and the Uncanny” (deadline: March 01, 2010):

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken
to a little before it will explain itself.
– Charles Dickens

For this special issue, Descant turns ghost hunter and dares to explore the murky connections between life and death, science and superstition, folk beliefs and fictions. We are looking for apparitions of all kinds. Do you have paranormal poetry? Are you haunted by the past? Do you have a ghost of an idea? Perhaps you’d like to address the role of ghosts in literature and film. We want to document the existence of ghosts, both literal and metaphorical, on our pages. – Guest editors, Alex Maeve Campbell and Christina Francisco

Visit Descant’s website for more information.

By Michael Arnzen

Michael Arnzen holds four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his disturbing (and often funny) fiction, poetry and literary experiments. He has been teaching as a Professor of English in the MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University since 1999.

2 comments

  1. Hi,

    I am writing a dissertation piece for contemporary art MA and stumbled across this site. I am writing the dissertation on ghosts, taking the form of a few chapters that will explore ghosts as metaphor to look at art, film and literature. I will be referencing the uncanny, the abject, Lacan Zizek etc and when I came across this call for submissions it seems particularly pertinent to my subject. Is it possible I could view these papers?

    Many thanks. Best,

    Ben

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