Edith Wharton 3 hr 40 min read

Six tales that step past the edge of the ordinary, a dead woman who receives a caller, a bewitched New England village, from a great American novelist's darker imagination.

Edith Wharton's 1926 collection gathers her supernatural and uncanny stories, subtle, elegant, and quietly chilling. Refined, atmospheric literary fiction. Read it for ghost stories from a master of the novel, where dread creeps in beneath impeccable prose.

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 40 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Edward C. Caswell