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Tales of Men and Ghosts
A collection of short stories from Edith Wharton including: The Bolted Door; His Father's Son; The Daunt Diana; The Debt; Full Circle; The Legend; The Eyes; The Blond Beast; Afterward; and, The Letters.
Early Short Stories
KERFOL As first published in Scribner's Magazine, March 1916 I "You ought to buy it," said my host; "it's just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song—you ought to buy it." It was not with the least idea of living up to the character my friend Lanrivain ascribed to me (as a matter of fact, under my unsociable exterior I have always had secret yearnings for domesticity) that I took his hint one autumn afternoon and went to Kerfol. My friend was motoring over to Quimper on business: he dropped me on the way, at a cross-road on a heath, and said:"...
Tales of Men and Ghosts
Reproduction of the original.
Tales of Men and Ghosts (Serapis Classics)
EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) was one of the most remarkable women of her time, and her immense commercial and critical success-most notably with her novel "The Age of Innocense" (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize-have long overshadowed her small but distinguished body of supernatural fiction. Some of her finest fantastic and detective work (which oft times overlap) was first collected in 1909 in "Tales of Men and Ghosts." The psychological horror is as important as the literal one here, and subtle ambiguities characterized by the best of Henry James's work (such as "The Turn of the Screw") are also present in Wharton's character studies, such as "The Bolted Door." Is the protagonist a murderer, or is he mad? In the end it may not matter, for it is his descent into madness and obsession that gives the story its chilling frisson. Other tales present men (or ghosts, or what men believe to be ghosts) in a variety of lights, from misunderstood monsters to vengeful spirits to insecure artists. If you have never read Edith Wharton's fantasy work before, you will be captivated and delighted.
The Bolted Door
'The Bolted Door' is a psychological horror short story written by Edith Wharton, an author best-remembered today for her work The Age of Innocence, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in Literature—making her the first woman to have achieved the feat.
