The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

This collection gathers the supernatural tales Wharton wrote over several decades. Many take place in old houses, grand estates and quiet European settings, where the past presses on the present in unsettling ways. Her ghosts are rarely crude. They tend to grow out of guilt, secrets, loneliness and failed relationships, so that the chill comes as much from human behaviour as from the unseen. The stories show a side of Wharton less known than her social novels, but one that shares their subtlety, restraint and psychological insight.