The monograph deals with the topic of ghosts in universal literature from a polyhedral perspective, making use of different perspectives, all of which highlight the resilience of these figures from the very beginning of literature up to the present day. Therefore, the aim of this volume is to focus on how ghosts have been translated and transformed over the years within literature written in the following languages: Classical Greek and Latin, Spanish, Italian, and English.

The forever rebellious Clothilde’s gravestone only mentions her first name and date of death. A small bump in the ground next to her grave marks former police officer Robert’s last resting place. And in thirty years, no visitors for either of them. Confined within the cemetery borders and yearning for closure to move on, the two ghosts can’t go after the people who killed them. Until Clothilde receives her very first visitor — and along with it, the means to escape the cemetery. Beyond the Grave is the first novel in the Ghost Detective series, following Robert and Clothilde in their search for justice.