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Clever illustrator Olly Moss is at it again, distilling pop culture phenomena to fun, image-based lists that make dissecting and pinpointing motifs and themes so much simpler. Moss’s latest looks at the supernatural world of spirits, and how some of our favorite ghosts from TV, movies, video games and more have spawned entire genres of [...]

Traditionally (meaning before WWI) ghosts were pretty much the scariest creatures humanity had invented, what with all the floating, ominous chanting, curtain-rustling and door-creaking. Over the last century we’ve proved that we’re actually the scariest things on the planet, and now ghosts are played for comedy more often than straight scares. Holytaco’s listicle of 25 [...]