Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors of this Volume -- List of Contributors -- Preface: Vapours and Veils: The Edge of the Unseen (Christine Göttler) -- Poltergeist the Prequel: Aspects of Otherworldly Disturbances in Early Modern Times (Wolfgang Neuber) -- Fire, Smoke and Vapour. Jan Brueghel's 'Poetic Hells': 'Ghespoock' in Early Modern European Art (Christine Göttler) -- Moveable Feasts of Reason: Description, Intelligence, and the Excitation of Sight (Bret Rothstein) -- Images in the Air: Optical Games, Magic and Imagination (Sven Dupré) -- Material Gazes and Flying Images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo (Berthold Hub) -- Spirits of Love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic Discourses of Vision (Wietse de Boer) -- 'Painting's Enchanting Poison': Artistic Ef? cacy and the Transfer of Spirits (Thijs Weststeijn) -- 'Singe the Enchantment for Sleepe': Music and Bewitched Sleep in Early Modern English Drama (Sarah F. Williams) -- Bilder des Unsichtbaren: Robert Fludds Konzeption des Weltgeistes (Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann) -- Sympathy in Eden. On Paradise with the Fall of Man by Rubens and Brueghel (Paul J. Smith) -- Dizzying Visions. St. Teresa of Jesus and the Embodied Visual Image (Rose Marie San Juan) -- Spirit as Intermediary in Post-Cartesian Natural Philosophy (Justin E.H. Smith) -- The Motions of Laughter: Allegory and Physiology in Walter Charleton's Natural History of the Passions (1674) (Dawn Morgan) -- Ghosts in the Machine: The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Rowe's Friendship in Death and the Early Eighteenth-Century Invisible World (Jennifer Frangos) -- Die Geburt des Kunstwerks durch den Geist der Proportion. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt und seine Charakterköpfe (Axel Christoph Gampp) -- List of Illustrations -- Index Nominum.