Questionable Shapes (annotated)

Questionable Shapes is a supernatural classic by William Dean Howells that offers a collection of English ghost stories. The incident was of a dignity which the supernatural has by no means always had, and which has been more than ever lacking in it since the manifestations of professional spiritualism began to vulgarize it. Hewson appreciated this as soon as he realized that he had been confronted with an apparition. He had been very little agitated at the moment, and it was not till later...