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I didn't get much out of this. It's a bit of a grab-bag of source material and script analysis, without looking at the actual staging of the TV story as much as the others have done, or indeed at its reception and subsequent reputation. So it's the first miss of the first six Black Archives for me; which after all is not such a bad strike rate.
The chapters are:
* telling us firmly how unusual Ghost Light is;
arguing (unconvincingly) that it uses other literary and film sources more than other stories (though with an amusing coda on similarities with The Rocky Horror Picture Show);
* pointing out that it is a haunted house story, and the Steven Moffat likes these too;
* a cursory look at hypnosis and mind control;
even shorter on "Java" as a euphemism; and
* a long and confused chapter on evolution and class.
The completist will want this, but I think there's more interesting commentary to be found elsewhere. ( )