Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth are filled with ghosts (and witches); Moaning Myrtle haunts the toilets at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts; and Dickens’s A Christmas Carol boasts not…
Cats! Lewis Carroll had the grinning and vanishing Cheshire Cat; Beatrix Potter had Tom Kitten, and Ginger and Pickles. Mother Goose’s cat played the fiddle;…