The Haunted Orchard

Spring returns to the world-and with it comes a quiet mystery hidden among the blossoms.

In Richard Le Gallienne's hauntingly beautiful short story, a weary city dweller escapes the noise of New York and travels to a lonely stretch of countryside along the Connecticut coast. There he rents an abandoned colonial farmhouse surrounded by ancient apple trees, lilacs, and the shimmering silence of spring.

At first the orchard seems like the perfect sanctuary for solitude and reflection.

But soon so...