Ghost stories of edith wharton - edith wharton

In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era.

In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a womans reputation.

Brittany conjures ancient cruelties, Dorset witnesses a retrospective haunting and a New York club cushions an elderly aesthete as he tells of the ghastly eyes haunting his nights.