A man hoping to help a bereaved friend is met with the most frightening event of his lifetime.

Welcome back to our Christmas celebration of ghost stories by Edith Wharton.

For the curious, alert, and not-too-easily frightened, we have several collections of Edith Wharton’s ghost stories here at the Nashville Public Library.

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.

Gathering around a fire to share ghost stories was a beloved Christmas tradition in the late 1800s into the early 1900s.

We are back with our old friend Oscar Wilde, who has several stories to hear here on Just Listen, with a didactic tale meant to be read to children called “The Devoted Friend.”