The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Edith Wharton: Volume 2-Seventeen Short Tales to Chill the Blood

Volume two of Edith Wharton's excursions into the chilling and other worldly

The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the w...