These Americans, no respect for permanent bloodstains, rattling chains, nor ancient legends.

It's like they don't even believe in ghosts!

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Today's story is the first of Oscar Wilde stories to ever be published in the Court and Society Review in 1887.

It has been adapted many times for stage and screen.

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And now,

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

1. When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American minister, bought Cantaville Chase, everyone told him he was doing a very foolish thing.

There was no doubt at all that the place was haunted.

Indeed, Lord Cantaville himself, who is a man of the most

printilious honor, had felt it his duty to mention the fact to Mr. Otis when they came to discuss

terms. We have not cared to live in the place ourselves, said Lord Kantaville.

Since my grand aunt, the Dowager Duchess of Bolton, was frightened into a fit, from which she never really recovered, by two

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