The Shadowy Third and Other Stories — Ellen Glasgow

Glasgow (1873-1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for In This Our Life which was quickly bought by Warner Bros and released as a film the same year. A lifelong Virginian who published 20 books including seven novels, five of which reached the bestseller lists, she portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South. Published in 1923, this was her only short story collection and contains seven stories, the first four of which are often categorized as ghost stories. All of the stories, with the exception of Jordan's End, had previously appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Scribner's and Good Housekeeping.