All Souls by Edith Wharton #audiobook #astoryaday #halloween2026

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Episode 9: All Souls by Edith Wharton------------------------------------------------------------------------Classic Ghost Stories presents: A Story a Day ’til Halloween.As the nights draw in and autumn settles over the land, we invite you to join us for a chilling tale every day throughout October.From haunted houses and restless spirits to strange happenings, forgotten curses and tales of things that should never have been disturbed, each story will take you a little deeper into the darkness.31 days. 31 stories. One haunting journey towards Halloween.So settle in, dim the lights, and listen carefully…There’s a story waiting for you every day until Halloween.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We call it Halloween. Its older name is All Souls' Eve — a night in the old calendar when the membrane between the living and the dead grows thin. Edith Wharton knew this night well. Every All Souls' Eve she sat alone by the fire and named her dead, one by one, until the room felt less empty.In her last story, written six months before her own death, she imagined what that night might look like from the other side. A woman alone in a large house. The servants gone. The telephone silent. The snow piling up outside. And somewhere in the lane, a figure who should not be there."All Souls'" is not quite a ghost story. It is something quieter, and harder to shake."All Souls'" was first published in Ghosts (D. Appleton-Century Company, New York, 1937), the only story in that collection to have had no prior magazine publication. It was Wharton's last completed work of fiction.Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded for The Age of Innocence in 1921. She remains one of the finest practitioners of the ghost story in the American tradition.-------------------------------------------------------------------Ad Free Stories!Become A Patreon !⁠https://patreon.com/barcud⁠If you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my workhttps://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk*Intro and Outro Music by The Heartwood Institute* 🎼https://bit.ly/somecomeback*Intro Movie by The Playground*https://www.instagram.com/theplayground.powder

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