Ghost Stories

A classic of the ghost story genre by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Edith Wharton is known as the author of The Age of Innocence, but her stories have long been part of the canon of English-language ghost fiction.

By Edith Wharton’s own admission, she “could not sleep in a room with a book containing a ghost story.” Yet, overcoming her fear, she began to write tales of the supernatural. Her ghostly characters appear in many different forms, inhabiting places such as an isolated village in New England, a magnificent estate, or a lonely house on the coast.

This collection includes captivating ghost stories that immerse the reader in a terrifying atmosphere. On these pages you will meet a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl, and a ghostly bell that saves a woman’s reputation; strange eyes that haunt an aging aesthete, and a man who receives letters from his deceased wife…