Pomegranate Seed And Other Ghostly Tales

Penguin Horror celebrates the very best in literary horror — a series of terrifying novels and stories that have thrilled, captivated and kept readers awake for generations.

Renowned for her incisive and elegant early twentieth-century fiction, Edith Wharton was also a master of the ghost story. Across her lifetime, she crafted dozens of chilling tales that blend pristine prose with strange, suffocating atmospheres and a profound sense of the uncanny.

This collection gathers some of her finest haunting narratives, from spectral handwriting and isolated houses in lonely landscapes to a marriage shadowed by a terrible secret. Subtle, unsettling and deeply atmospheric, these stories showcase Wharton’s remarkable ability to evoke fear through suggestion and psychological tension.

“Masterly stories of horror and unease.” — The New Yorker