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4.0
Edith Wharton is such a lovely writer. Her sentences are perfect - just exactly the right number of words, no more and no less. This collection of stories is deliciously creepy. They aren't stories of "terror" like the book jacket says - they are stories in which the super-natural is as real as any other character. The supernatural element is completely real to the people experiencing it, so it's not hard to suspend disbelief. There are stories that are reminiscent of Poe or of James's Turn of the Screw, but without the melodrama. A couple of the stories are from the same "world" as Ethan Frome, and as realistically written, even if they contain ghosts and vampires. A very enjoyable spooky read.
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