The Norton Book of Ghost Stories — Multiple Authors

"I've occasionally been asked, by someone who has heard that I was assembling this anthology, whether I myself believe in ghosts to which I've replied, less facetiously than might first appear, "Everybody does." I can't believe that any of us, if we dig deep enough in our psyches, is utterly free of the suspicion that the dead continually attend the living. Brad Leithauser, from the Introduction"