About the author
Caron Lipman is the author of "Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny" (Routledge), published in two editions and drawn from research into how people experience the uncanny within their own homes. The book asks what it feels like to live in a so-called haunted home and how residents make sense of unexplained or anomalous experiences within domestic space, examining the intersection of the material, immaterial, and temporal in everyday dwelling. Rather than cataloguing ghost stories for entertainment, Lipman's approach treats haunting as a lens for studying belief, memory, and the meaning people attach to their homes. The book sits within the occult-philosophy category but reads as a work of cultural and sociological analysis rather than a practical or devotional guide, aimed at readers interested in the domestic uncanny as a subject of scholarly inquiry rather than as a paranormal how-to.
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💬 What our editors say about Caron Lipman's books
“Lipman delivers a rigorous academic examination of haunting, treating it as a complex social phenomenon rather than a paranormal spectacle. The text is dense with theoretical frameworks regarding gendered lenses and material…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny
“Lipman provides a rigorous academic exploration of domestic haunting, avoiding sensationalism in favor of deep sociological insight. This scholarly tone makes it ill-suited for readers seeking thrilling ghost stories or practical…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny
