The Canterville Ghost
by Oscar Wilde
An American family buys an English castle and is told, politely, that it comes with a ghost. They are not impressed. Wilde turns every haunted-house convention upside down: the ghost rattles his chains, and the family offers him machine oil for the squeak.
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When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punctilious honour, had felt it his duty to mention the fact to Mr. Otis whe…Oscar Wilde, The Canterville GhostStart reading The Canterville Ghost free →
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The funniest ghost story in English, and one of the shortest. Seven chapters, and the ghost is the one who ends up frightened.
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