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A haunted house, and other short stories
1962 pages
A shimmering, impressionistic journey through the quiet ghosts of memory, time, and the profound weight of everyday moments.
What it feels like
Reading this collection feels like wandering through a sunlit, slightly overgrown garden where every shadow holds a memory. The pace is decidedly meandering, asking you to slow down and inhabit the fleeting, shimmering moments of consciousness that make up a life. It is an ethereal, deeply introspective experience, steeped in a wistful and observant tone that elevates the mundane into something profound. The prose is fluid and impressionistic, washing over you in waves of sensory detail and quiet revelation rather than pulling you through a rigid plot. It will delight readers who love modernist literature, lyrical sentences, and stories that explore the fragile, haunting connections between people, the passage of time, and the invisible ghosts we all carry.
- Mood
- ethereal
- introspective
- haunting
- luminous
- quiet
- Tone
- contemplative
- wistful
- observant
- elegiac
- lyrical
- Pace
- meandering
- Themes
- the passage of time · fragility of human connection · inner lives of women · memory and ghosts · beauty of the mundane
- The writing
- Luminous, fluid, and deeply impressionistic, the sentences capture the exact texture of passing thoughts and sensory details.
- The arc
- The journey drifts through fleeting, luminous observations of daily life before settling into a deep, lingering melancholy and quiet revelation.
- Who it's for
- Readers who savor beautiful, modernist sentences and quiet, character-driven introspection over traditional plot mechanics.
Content notes
- grief
- death
- existential dread
About the book
Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that appeared in magazines, and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia Woolf's shorter works of fiction. Foreword by Leonard Woolf.
Description from Open Library.
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