Olive Harper was the pen name of Helen D’Apery, an American journalist and fiction writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who contributed humor and fiction to popular periodicals. The Sociable Ghost is a light comic piece in which a ghost is treated not as a source of dread but as a congenial presence — reflecting a strain of American humor that found comedy in the supernatural.
Now a freely available public-domain work, The Sociable Ghost is a pleasant, quick piece of period American humor fiction. Download the EPUB at Better Gutenberg.