Fading Supernatural

Tales of Men and Ghosts

by Edith Wharton

Ten stories of 1910, among them Afterward, in which an American couple rent a house in Dorset hoping it has a ghost, and are told they will not know it until long afterwards. Wharton set her ghosts among comfortable people. They are the more unsettling for the good furniture.

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Reading time

About 6 hr 25 min

Where to find it

On the Fading Supernatural shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #4514. In the public domain in the United States.