The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural

This collection gathers linked short stories set in small-town New England in which ordinary domestic scenes are unsettled by inexplicable phenomena. The tales range from overt ghostly visitations to subtle psychological hauntings, exploring grief, superstition, social scrutiny, and the limits of rational explanation. Many pieces focus on women's experience within constrained domestic spaces, showing how community gossip, loss, and repressed feeling can produce or interpret uncanny events. The book alternates atmospheric storytelling with restrained realism, leaving several mysteries ambiguous while probing moral and emotional undercurrents.