Title: The ghost garden
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1918
Description: "The ghost of a willful and vicious young woman, Melany Horsemanden, haunts a house in colonial Virginia.  When, years later, another young girl named Melany settles in the house and attracts a lover, the spirit of the deceased woman intervenes to frustrate their courtship.  Ultimately, only the power of love can overcome the vampire-like powers of the undead."- - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels 1900 - 2000" (Appendix to his book, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)
Subjects: Ghosts, colonial Virginia, romance, haunting, vampire, undead
Places: Virginia
People: Melany Horsemanden
Time periods: both in colonial America and 1918 (the year the book was written)