Fiction & other works · 1887 · novella

The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde

"The Canterville GhostThe Canterville Ghost – A Hylo-Idealistic Romance: The Redemptive Heroine", in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. It later appeared in the short story collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, published in July 1891. The story details an American family, who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman, trapped for killing his wife, then later being walled in and starved to death by his wife's brothers. The short story has been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times, one of the most notable the loosely-based 1944 MGM film of the same name.

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