A solitary American is urged by a friend to buy Kerfol, the most romantic house in Brittany, and goes alone one autumn afternoon to look at it. In its empty courtyard he is watched by a group of strangely silent dogs. The old records of a seventeenth-century trial, in which Anne de Cornault stood accused of her husband’s death, explain what he has seen.
One of Wharton’s finest ghost stories, quiet, cruel and unforgettable, and an ideal introduction to her supernatural fiction. Download the free EPUB.