![]() ![]() Otis, isn’t pushed off when told that the house is haunted, he’s happy to buy the home, the furniture, and the ghost! The gist of the story is pretty straight forward – An American family is getting ready to purchase an English Country house. Published in 1887 in the magazine The Court and Society Review, this story was Wilde’s first published fiction (he’d already published plenty of poetry). The Canterville Ghost isn’t very long and you can read it over at Project Gutenberg and there’s a free audio version on LibriVox as well. In a round about way, i guess Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost is an ancestor of light hearted urban fantasy, non-horror ghost stories, and maybe even Casper the Friendly Ghost type stories? It might also be an ancestor of another ghost story, but I’ll get to that one later! It was written more than 100 years ago, so it’s certainly vintage, but it isn’t very SF-y or even fantasy-y. I’m not sure if this story qualifies as vintage science fiction. Will the person who mentioned this story to me please stand up? Someone recommended or mentioned Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, either on their blog or a comments section somewhere or on twitter, or maybe I read about this on tor.com or somewhere else, and I want to know who recommended this to me, so I can thank them. ![]()
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