Arlo Bates 3 hr 5 min read

The bewitchingly pretty Irene Gaspic is unusual not for her beauty, wit, or wealth, but for what befalls her in the first of a genial gathering of ghostly and fantastical tales.

Arlo Bates's 1908 collection gathers charming fantasy and light-horror stories. Witty, urbane, entertaining. Read it for a genteel turn-of-the-century treasury of the supernatural, an intoxicated ghost, a psychical club, and other droll marvels, told with the polish of a distinguished man of letters.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 5 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).