Unseen HG Wells Ghost Story Published For First Time

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Link: Unseen HG Wells ghost story published for first time [The Guardian]

 

The Haunted Ceiling, a macabre story of strange goings-on in an old house, is thought to have been written in the mid-1890s.

 

Here’s a gothic tale for a stormy night: a man called Meredith converts a room in his house into a cluttered and untidy study, and one day asks a visiting friend if he can see anything strange on the ceiling.

 

“Don’t you see it?” he said.

“See what?” “The – thing. The woman.”

I shook my head and looked at him.

“All right then,” he said abruptly.

“Don’t see it!”

This is the beginning of a newly discovered HG Wells ghost story, called The Haunted Ceiling, a macabre tale found in an archive that Wells scholars say they have never seen before. It will be published for the first time this week, in the Strand magazine...

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Always like Ghost Stories, here's a good one as well.