Nine stories of women in trouble that no one else can see: an heiress left alone after her mother's death, a wife who prays her husband back from the dead and must live with what returns. Violet Hunt grew up in a Pre-Raphaelite household with Ruskin as a visitor, ran a literary salon, and wrote her ghosts as social observation rather than sensation. Fifty-one plates range from Goya's bullfights to Sickert's grey Dieppe skies, matching the unease that gathers in Hunt's comfortable rooms.