Best known for her sharply observed novels of manners, Edith Wharton was also one of the great writers of supernatural fiction. 

Pomegranate Seed gathers six of her finest ghost stories, demonstrating how she transformed the traditional ghost tale in her own subtle way. Wharton lets unease accumulate through social rituals, domestic interiors and the small fractures that appear beneath apparently ordered lives.

Included here are celebrated stories such as "Afterward," "Kerfol" and the title story, alongside the deeply uncanny "Bewitched" and "The Lady's Maid's Bell." Across them, haunting becomes inseparable from memory, repression, guilt and the persistence of the past. Written during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these stories sit somewhere between Gothic fiction, psychological realism and literary modernism, anticipating later writers such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Aickman. This handsome Penguin Horror edition is an ideal introduction to Wharton's overlooked supernatural fiction, and a rewarding collection for readers interested in literary horror that privileges atmosphere over shock.

2025 Penguin Horror paperback. Near fine condition with minimal shelf wear. Clean, bright and unread.