Product Description

Readers of The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth, and the recently filmed The Age of Innocence may be surprised to learn that Edith Wharton, known for her elegant narrative style, 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. With themes of vampirism, isolation and hallucination, they reflect the author's internalized fears and her unhappy experience with marriage. Some of these nine stories appeared in magazines and one, ""The Duchess at Prayer,"" is published again, for the first time since the nineteenth century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1682302 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 188 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Edith Wharton described herself as having an "intense Celtic sense of the supernatural." The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural, selected and introduced by Peter Haining, contains nine stories that Wharton wrote between 1893 and 1935. While they display the elegant prose of her novels, these tales revolve around supernatural manifestations (vampires, doppelgangers) made credible by Wharton's superb storytelling skills.
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Review
Wharton's affinity for the supernatural is relatively little known compared to some of her other writings: this gathering of her ghostly short stories presents the range of her themes and works; from tales of vampires to stories of isolation and haunting. As with many of Wharton's works, themes of individual challenge and power pervade these tales of terror and the supernatural. -- Midwest Book Review