The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Once her fear was overcome, however, she took to writing tales of the supernatural for publication in the magazines of the day.

These eleven finely wrought pieces showcase her mastery of the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other supernatural phenomena.

Called flawlessly eerie by Ms.

magazine, this collection includes Pomegranate Seed, The Eyes, All Souls', The Looking Glass, and The Triumph of Night.

Read more No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them,’ is much more than the cheap paradox it seems to many.

To ‘believe,’ in that sense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warm darkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason that the faculty dwells with which we apprehend ghosts.