Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 4 hr 58 min read

'In childhood I always had a fearless faith in ghosts, I desired above all sights to see them,' the narrator confesses, and threw herself in the way of every mystery that might bring one near.

Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth's 1860 novel is an atmospheric fantasy-horror tale by a hugely popular American author. Gothic, dramatic, of its era. Read it for a moody period ghost story from a bestselling Victorian novelist, a haunted house, a fearless narrator, and the dark secret beneath a home under a prodigious ban.

In its time

Published in 1860, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

4 hr 58 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).