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The Wind In The Rose-Bush

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Book Overview: 

This is a collection of short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The stories all have different topics, there are mysterious deaths, haunted houses, ghosts, moving shadows, and all other ingredients which make for a good ghost story.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Henry that last night. I don't know, but he did from what Rebecca overheard," said Emma.

"Not so much cross as sort of soft, and sweet, and aggravating," sniffled Rebecca.

"He never raised his voice," said Caroline; "but he had his way."

"He had a right to in this case."

"Yes, he did."

"He had as much of a right here as Henry," sobbed Rebecca, "and now he's gone, and he will never be in this home that poor father left him and the rest of us again."

"What do you really think ailed Edward?" asked Emma in hardly more than a whisper. She did not look at her sister.

Caroline sat down in a nearby armchair, and clutched the arms convulsively until her thin knuckles whitened.

"I told you," said she.

Rebecca held her handkerchief over her mouth, and looked at them above it with terrified, streaming eyes.

"I know you said that he had terrible pains. . . Read More

Community Reviews

He de reconocer que no ha sido la lectura más amena de los últimos meses y he tenido que ponerle voluntat. Supongo que és cosa de la distància temporal y la prosa austera de la autora. Por ejemplo, con H. D. Everett (también publicada en La Biblioteca de Carfax) me costó mucho menos acceder. Però, u

Disfruté mucho estas historias de casas encantadas. Al final sí me provocan ese escalofríos de una buena historia de fantasmas.

Se trata de una recopilación de seis relatos de corte clásico de fantasmas.
Los relatos no dan miedo y tampoco sorprenden demasiado, pero la autora sabe crear con habilidad ese ambiente de tensión que va aumentando conforme avanzas en las historias, aunque algunas terminan abruptamente. 

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These stories have held up well - unlike many stories from this era, the prose isn't unnecessarily filled with flowery metaphor. The author can write a pretty sentence - but she uses this ability sparingly, in a straight forward manner, which allows the stories to flow easily. I wasn't burdened by t

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