Wharton's Ghost Stories: A Live Reading
with Elric Walker
October 19, 2022
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
“‘I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them,’ is much more than the cheap paradox it seems to many,” Edith Wharton wrote in the preface to the 1937 collection Ghosts. “‘To believe,’ in that sense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warm darkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason that the faculty dwells with which we apprehend the ghosts we may not be endowed with the gift of seeing.”
In October, we celebrate Halloween with a live reading of Edith Wharton's short ghost story, "Kerfol," published in 1916 by Scribner's Magazine. Join us on the Terrace for this reading and complimentary hot apple cider and donuts!
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The Mount is a Massachusetts Cultural Council UP designated organization welcoming participants of all disabilities. Please contact The Mount at 413-551-5100 or by email, info@edithwharton.org, to discuss accommodations needed to participate fully in this event.
Purchase the new edition of Wharton Ghost Stories from The Mount's bookshop.org page!
- $10 for members; $15 non-members.
- We recommend advance registration; the event is on the Terrace--the café is open for drinks by 4 pm..
- Tickets include hot apple cider and donuts!
Elric Walker is a widely known performing songwriter and poet living in the Western Hills of Massachusetts. Elric has been associated with The Mount for several years as a docent and a member of our Backstairs Tour, where he joined our “meet the servants” dramatization as Alfred White–the Wharton’s beloved butler. Elric read Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” in 2021. He returns this fall to The Mount as part of the ghost tour team and will present a dramatic reading of one of Wharton’s most chilling ghost stories, “Kerfol.”