![]() ![]() The ghost, who had been frightening all those who stayed at Canterville Chase for three hundred years, takes the Americans' unwillingness to be scared by him as a great insult. They soon accept that the ghost is real but are not frightened by it. They are warned that the house is haunted before they move in but are unconcerned at first. The plot is set in motion when the American Otis family moves into the old English country house Canterville Chase. It was republished in an anthology of Wilde's works, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories in 1891. It was first published in two parts in the February 23 and Maissues of the British magazine The Court and Society Review. ![]() "The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by the Irish author Oscar Wilde which contains elements of both horror and comedy. 1906 illustration for "The Canterville Ghost" by Wallace Heard Goldsmith. ![]()
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