Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The multi-award winning author Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), having been traumatically affected by ghost stories during her childhood, channeled her fears and obsession into creating a series of haunting tales filled with spirits and other supernatural occurrences. Although she claims not to believe in ghosts, she admits that they terrify her. Wharton harmonizes this powerful, irrational, and imaginary fear in her fantasy writing in a unique way.

In this unique collection of carefully crafted short stories, Wharton proves her ability in the genre of ghost stories. Among the many supernatural gifts included in the pages, you will encounter a married farmer enchanted by a dead girl, a phantom bell that saves a woman's reputation, the strange visual phenomena that terrify the pale hours of an elderly aesthete, the haunted man who receives letters from his deceased wife, and the terrifying force of a doppelgänger that foretells a terrible tragedy.

Fascinating, rich, and strange, Edith Wharton's ghost stories, like old wine, have matured and gained more intensity over the years. Pages: 304, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm