The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Publisher: Scribner
Published: October 10, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780684842578
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Horror & ghost stories; Short stories; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Classics; Ghost; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Literary; Ghost stories
First sentence: It was the autumn after I had the typhoid.
Description: One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, '... till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a ghost story." Once her fear was overcome, however, she took to writing tales of the supernatural for publication in the magazines of the day.

These eleven finely wrought pieces showcase her mastery of the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other supernatural phenomena.