Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by
ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith
Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into
creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits
beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming
not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she
was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational and
imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. In this
unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her
mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural
treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer
bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's
reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight
hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters
from his dead wife; and the frightening power of a doppelganger
which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. Compelling, rich and strange,
the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured
and grown more potent with the passing years.
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