From Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910. [Etext Center, UVa]
This story was made into a TV movie as part of the "Shades of Darkness" series that aired on Grenada TV in the UK; for a brief note (which misidentifies the author), go here and scroll down the page. This is one of Wharton's better ghost stories, in my opinion....

An interesting ghostly counterpart to Wharton's classic short novel Ethan Frome.

Another of the works from Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910), and in some ways a wonderful blend of Poe and Hawthorne, with a dash or two of Henry James.

A woman dies and meets her soul-mate, who turns out to be....
from the December 1893 issue of Scribner's magazine, at the "Making of America"
note: stories at the "Making of America" project are available in multiple formats (image, pdf, plain text). This link is to the images — e-facsimiles, basically — but other viewing options are readily available (click on a page number, then select another "View As" option).

One of Wharton's best ghost stories, in my humble.... quasi-Gothic architecture, an antiquarian immersion in the Renaissance past, complex gender issues, some ghostly dogs — less terror but more haunting than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes ghostly canine tale The Hound of the Baskervilles, much richer than Elia Peattie's "A Spectral Collie," though Steven King's Cujo may give it a (dog)run for the money.... it's a delightful piece. (55K) [Etext Center, UVa]

Another example of the moral use to which Wharton could put the ghostly tale, although it's not an easy or conventional moral tale.... This story was, like "Afterward," made into a TV movie as part of the "Shades of Darkness" series that aired on Grenada TV in the UK; for a brief note, go here and scroll down the page.