How to write ghost stories

A long quote on the matter, and my own (visual) approach to it.

Avery Gordon wrote: "How to write ghost stories--how to write about permissions and prohibitions, presence and absence, about apparitions and hysterical blindness. To write stories concerning exclusions and invisibilities is to write ghost stories. To write ghost stories implies that ghosts are real, that is to say, that they produce material effects. To impute a kind of subjectivity to ghosts implies that, from a certain standpoint, the dialectics of visibility and invisibility invoke a constant negotiation between what can be seen and what is in the shadows. Why would we want to write such stories? Because, in the end and in the beggining it does matter what they see or think they see. It matters because although the terminals are equipped with holographic scanners, they cannot decode the secret of every item, infallibly. Indeed, what is at stake here, is the political status and function of systematic hauntings" Ghostly Matters.