Happy Holiday greetings! We continue today with our celebration of ghost stories by Edith Wharton and the conclusion of “Afterward,” one of her most famous and loved ghost stories.

When we last met, Mary Boyne’s husband had been missing for two weeks already, and we re-enter our story as a rush of searching and inquiry as to his whereabouts spreads loudly throughout the environs of Lyng.

The conclusion of “Afterward,” by Edith Wharton … we begin….