{"id":1621,"date":"2012-10-26T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T19:04:07","slug":"surprise-edith-wharton-wrote-ghost-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/surprise-edith-wharton-wrote-ghost-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!  Edith Wharton Wrote Ghost Stories!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/184022164X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=184022164X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1622 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0pt 30px 30px 0px;\" title=\"Ghost Stories Edith Wharton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GhostStoriesEdithWharton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GhostStoriesEdithWharton.jpg 102w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GhostStoriesEdithWharton-63x100.jpg 63w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px\" \/><\/a>Did you know that Edit Wharton wrote ghost stories?\u00a0 I certainly didn&#8217;t. I was pleasantly surprised to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/184022164X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=184022164X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20\">Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Amazon says about the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman&#8217;s reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; and the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Edit Wharton wrote ghost stories?\u00a0 I certainly didn&#8217;t. I was pleasantly surprised to learn about Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton. Here&#8217;s what Amazon says about the book: \u00a0Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[354],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-edith-wharton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}