The Lost Ghost (1903) by Mary E Wilkins

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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A quiet conversation between two women over tea. A rented house. A memory long buried. In *The Lost Ghost*, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman offers no gothic castles or howling winds—only the hush of a parlour, the rustle of a child’s dress, and a voice repeating the same, simple question. It is not horror that lingers here, but something colder, something closer. A presence that never left. *The Lost Ghost* was first published in *The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural* in 1903. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was an American writer known for her psychologically rich stories of New England life. Though acclaimed for her realist fiction, she also wrote some of the most quietly devastating supernatural tales of her age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.4	The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins.
1:16.4	Mrs. John Emerson, sitting with her needlework beside the window, looked out and saw Mrs.
1:22.3	Rode and Measef coming down the street and knew at once by the trend of her steps and the cant of her head
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