All documents are haunted, as confirmed in Irving Malin's review of The Attic by Curtis Harnack: "Every chapter contains scenes which demonstrate the strangeness of daily experiences, the oddity of ordinary life. . . . [Harnack] is a ghost confronting other ghostly presences.  Thus his memoir becomes a haunted document—aren’t all documents haunted?—and this very fact attacks our longing to know our beginnings, our desire to search our 'mental attics.'"—Contemporary Literature