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.Ĭompelling, rich and strange, the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured and grown more potent with the passing years. In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre.

Wharton imbues this potent irrational and imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. As a keen observer and chronicler of society, she is without peer. Her works include The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. While claiming not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them. Edith Wharton was born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families and was educated here and abroad. Whartons methods and achievements in short fiction. These works form a well-defined group in subject and technique, and they provide a convenient focus for an inquiry into Mrs. 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. Edith Whartons Ghost Stories I Edith Whartons ghost stories represent, in general, the work of a mature and sophisticated artist. Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937: Title: Tales of Men and Ghosts Contents: The bolted door - His father's son - The Daunt Diana - The debt - Full circle - The legend - The eyes - The blond beast - Afterward - The letters.

The ghost stories of edith wharton