Ghosts: Stories

This goosebump inducing, chilling, hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton’s ghost stories contains an introduction from the author herself, shedding light on the lesser known fact that Wharton was a master of the form herself, this book in fact being one of her last literary acts — selections that she wrote between 1902 and 1937. Multifaceted in the directionality and sources of horror in her stories, her fiction illuminates motivations, preoccupation, violence and reality as embodied and caused by culture and societal institutions. She explores the very part of the essence of life that stares at difficult things, at the void itself. The preface will guide fans of her work on mythology and other fields to darker horizons, exploring the critical nature that can exist in horror as well as the “fun shudders” that the genre can offer.

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