Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937), author of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, was also a subtle and accomplished writer of ghost stories. Tales like ‘Afterward’, ‘The Eyes’ and ‘Kerfol’ bring her acute psychological realism to the supernatural, making her a distinguished contributor to the literary ghost tradition.