Three Things: The Ghost Edition, II

Happy Halloween week, dear writers! Let’s get in the mood by writing about some ghostly apparitions. Will they be frightful? Mournful? Playful? As always, I’ve collected three images to get you started. Behold! The spirits!

Deborah Turbeville, Untitled, from Unseen Versailles, 1980. Photograph. 

Frederick Simpson Coburn, What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!, 1899. Illustration for Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1899.

William Hope, Man with a female spirit, c. 1920. Photograph. National Media Museum Collection, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.