Ghost-Feeler

Diagnosed with typhoid fever at age of nine, Edith Wharton was beginning a long convalescence when she was given a book of ghost tales to read. Not only setting back her recovery, this reading opened up her fevered imagination to ''a world haunted by formless horrors''. So chronic was this paranoia that she was unable to sleep in a room with any book containing a ghost story. She was even moved to...