One will meet no finer evocation of the uncanny than The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton. Wharton is an American writer best known for her novels about the upper class society into which she was born in the late 19th century. Her ghost stories, however, draw more on her subtle nature as a “ghost-feeler, the person sensible of invisible currents of being in certain places and at certain hours.”
According to Wharton, what a ghost needs is silence and continuity – “for where a ghost has once appeared it seems to hanker to appear again; and it obviously prefers the silent hours.”
During the height of the pandemic, coyotes and foxes prowled once noisy and crowded urban settings. Perhaps these deserted streets and squares had other ghostly visitors….