6/8/2023 0 Comments The canterville ghost story![]() ![]() The ghost feels very depressed following these repeated failed attempts to exercise his ghostly duty of scaring people to death. On his third attempt he encounters another ghost, which frightens him a lot, until he realises it is a fake created by the twins. The ghost tries again: clanking noises, howling cries etc. The old housekeeper explains that the blood stain “.is the blood of Lady Eleanore de Canterville, who was murdered on that very spot by her own husband, Sir Simon de Canterville, in 1575.” The ghost makes his first apparition and attempts to scare the Minister and his family (Mrs Otis, daughter Virginia, elder son Washington, and twin sons Stars and Stripes), but to no avail. As they arrive at the house, they find a three century-old blood stain which won't go and bad weather which won't go either. Mr Otis, an American minister, buys the Canterville chase in spite of the warnings of the seller, who tells him there is a ghost inside the house. Lighter and more macabre at the same time, “The Canterville Ghost” is probably an even better expression of Oscar Wilde's talent as a writer of short stories. ![]() ![]() It is one of Wilde's most famous short stories, along with Lord Arthur Savile's crime. “The Canterville Ghost” is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1887 in The court and society review. ![]()
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