The 6 stories in this collection add a new dimension to the fictional portrayal of New England life. The author's apparently simple, declarative prose moves the reader convincingly into a world where ghosts dwell and evil is real. These stories contain buried comments on the life of women at the turn of the century. By the author of Pembroke.

The Wind in the Rose Bush: And Other Stories of the Supernatural

Literature & Fiction

Wilkins-Freeman, Mary E.

United States

Academy Chicago Publishers

Six classic ghost stories from the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction. Lightly edited for modern readers, the bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. Best of all the book includes the original unedited versions in appendices. The Wind in the Rose Bush: As an aunt waits to see her niece strange things start happening. The Shadows on the Wall: Three sisters mourn their brother and can't explain what they see. Luella Miller: The people who help a seemingly capable woman have a habit of wasting away. The Southwest Room: Something in Great-Aunt Harriet's old bedroom keeps scaring away renters. The Vacant Lot: A family moves into an underpriced house only to discover the neighbors are terrifying. The Lost Ghost: A woman tells her friend of the time she lived in a house haunted by a little girl.

The Wind in the Rose Bush: And Other Ghost Stories (Inwood Commons Modern Editions)

Inwood Commons Publishing

The Debtor

Six months after Arthur's attempt to purchase back his ancestral acres, a man came to him with a proposal for him to furnish on contract a large quantity of coal for the railroad. Arthur jumped at the chance.  The contract was drawn up by a lawyer in the nearest town and signed. Arthur, trusting blindly to the honesty and good-will of everybody, had hurried for his train without seeing more than that the stipulated rates had been properly mentioned in the contract. His wife was ill; in fact, their daughter was only a few days old, and he was anxious and eager to be home. There had been no strikes at that period in that vicinity, and indeed comparatively few in the whole country. Arthur would almost as soon have thought of guarding in his contract against an earthquake; but the strike clause was left out, and there was a strike. In consequence he was unable to fill the contract without ruin, and he was therefore ruined.  In the end the old friend of his father, who had purchased his patrimony, remained in undisputed possession of it, with an additional value of several thousands from the passage of the railroad through one end of the plantation, and had, besides, the mine. Arthur had sold the mine at a nominal price to pay his debts, to a third party who represented this man. He had been left actually penniless with a wife and two babies to support, but as his pocket became empty his very soul had seemed to become full to overflowing with the rage and bitterness of his worldly experience.

Literary

Wildside Press

For centuries, ghost stories were part of an oral tradition, often involving a storyteller reciting the spooky tale before a fire on a chilly winter night. During the 1800s, as magazine production and literacy became more widespread, reading ghost stories rose in popularity. However, many authors attempted to preserve on paper the experience of listening to an account of the supernatural. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary E. Wilkins, E. Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, M.R. James, and many others put their creative stamps on this distinctive tradition. Echoing Ghost Stories: Literary Reflections of Oral Tradition showcases such tales, establishing their fascinating place within the wider genre of the Victorian ghost story.

Echoing Ghost Stories: Literary Reflections of Oral Tradition

BIERCE, AMBROSE

NESBIT, E.

JAMES, M.R.

Prasil, Tim

WHARTON,EDITH

STOWE., HARRIET BEECHER

Genre Fiction

Brom Bones Books

Classic Christmas Stories for Children: Favorite Christmas Stories for Kids

Children's Books

Coolidge., Susan

DICKENS., CHARLES

Moore., Clement C

POTTER, BEATRIX

Christian, Hans Christen

Blanco, Margery Williams

Cooper, Francois

Corning, W.H.

Durand, Ruth Sawyer

Cranberry Classics

Green Mountain Stories

Onion River Press

The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors is a unique novel written in twelve chapters, each written by a different author. The novel was conceived by William Dean Howells, a famous American realist author. The authors are: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse and Edith Wyatt. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors

Brown, Alice

Vorse, Mary Heaton

Bangs, John Kendrick

Jordan, Elizabeth

Shipman Andrews, Mary Raymond

Dyke, Henry Van

Cutting, Mary Stewart

JAMES,HENRY

Howells, William Dean.

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