Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear & obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave & 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 & 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 womans reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; & the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. Compelling rich & strange the ghost stories of Edith Wharton like vintage wine have matured & grown more potent with the passing years.