Until she was nearing 30, Edith Wharton couldn’t sleep in a house that contained a book of ghost stories, so terrified she was of them. She eventually overcame her fear enough to become a master of the form.
, whom she admired, and her good friend Henry James—but her 1937 collection, which was published shortly after her death, has long been out of print. This October, it will be revived by NYRB Classics, with the same preface it was initially published with, and the same title, “.” Spanning the length of Wharton’s career—the earliest story, “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” is from 1902—the tales appear in their original, somewhat perplexing order.
When “Pomegranate Seed,” one of the collection’s best stories, was first published in a magazine, Wharton received a flood of angry letters from readers. The story follows Charlotte Ashby, the pragmatic second wife of a man named Kenneth Ashby. When the couple return home from their honeymoon, Charlotte notices the arrival of a series of letters, nine in total, addressed to her husband in a handwriting she recognizes but can’t quite place.
Toth believes that Wharton “was attracted to the genre because she could work through different fears she had in her life.” In the early stories, “there’s a lot about her failing marriage, about isolation, and feeling trapped,” she said. Reading the stories, I sometimes felt like I had discovered a hidden room in an impeccable house, and turned to find that the door had shut behind me.
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