The Ghost-Feeler

Description

Edith Wharton described herself as someone with an 'intense Celtic sense of the supernatural'. As a 'ghost-feeler', she wrote a number of chilling tales that objectify this sense of unease, even terror. Many of these stories appear here for the first time since their original magazine publication. With themes of vampirism, isolation and hallucination, they reflect the author's internalized fears and her unhappy experience of marriage, and point to a world far removed from the comfort and urbane elegance of her famous novels.