Our Haunted Fascination for Life After Death and Death After Life: A Review of I Was Alive Here Once

A ghost can be many things: a memory, a person, a moment, or a place. It can haunt you, and it can help you. It is something or someone that, for some reason, falls off the tracks of time. Stuck in the past, it straggles through the present, lost and alone.

I Was Alive Here Once contains many different types of ghosts in many different stories, fables, and fairy tales, from many different cultures. Sometimes, the world we know is the ghost in the story; the aftermath of war, the wreckage of environmental destruction, lingers in the background of tales driven by the supernatural. Other times, the ghosts blend into our reality, and the supernatural takes a backseat, with ghosts that hardly even know that they are ghosts.

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