What a lovely ghost story this was!
This turned out to be the cutest ghost story for me lately. I have read Wilde the novelist, this time his story also made a mark. When an American minister bought Canterville Chase ( A British Mansion), everyone said it was a foolish decision because the place was haunted and there was no doubt in it. But the American minister believed and said that there was no such thing, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy.
Listening to it the owner of the Canterville replied, “If you don’t mind a ghost in the house, It is all right. Only you must remember I warned you.”
A few weeks after, the purchase was concluded and the family of the American minister shifted to the Canterville Chase. Then there begins the holy terror of a ghost. There appears a red bloodstain in the sitting room which comes again and again, even after wiping it multiple times. An old man of terrible aspect, his eyes as red burning coal, long gray hair fell over his shoulder in a matted coil, soiled and ragged garments with antique cut, wrists, and ankles hung with heavy manacles and rusty gyves, appears and terrorizes the minister’s family.
Many fearful things happened but I was not affrighted as a reader. In fact, I enjoyed Ghost’s terrorizing the family. There was an obvious reason behind it. The most charming thing about this story is the wit and humor that is wonderfully incorporated by Wilde in this ghostly plot.
Not only this family faces new experiences in this mansion, but this strange ghost also faces some odd but very curious experiences with this family that he had never faced, in a brilliant and uninterrupted career of three hundred years.
This was a refreshing treat, as a quick read. A delightful story, written in a very witty way. The most delightful and colorful character of the story is the Ghost itself and you can surely fall in love with him.
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