![]() ![]() My favorite was when they put a pail of water on top of a barely opened door, and play in the room. I did feel bad for Sir Simon, when the young twins play all sorts of pranks on him. I’m not describing it well, but it is hilarious! ![]() Otis, who offers him a branded tincture to help with his sore throat and supposed indigestion. When Sir Simon screams and groans all night, he’s approached by a helpful Mrs. He’s greeted by a disgruntled and sleepy Mr Otis who tells the ghost to stop being so loud because people are trying to sleep, and oh by the way here is some branded oil for your chains, have a nice evening chap. Sir Simon tries the classic trick of rattling chains in the middle of the night. Mr and Mrs Otis take every opportunity for product placement, the twin boys play hilarious (and kinda mean) tricks on the ghost, and poor ghostly Sir Simon is so out of his league he literally can’t even. What follows is a laugh out loud story of the ghost, Sir Simon, and his old fashioned attempts to scare away this decidedly modern American family. Otis, their oldest son Washington, their daughter Virginia, and their younger twin sons, promptly move in, and are greeted by the ghost’s famous blood stain on the living room floor. Otis, isn’t pushed off when told that the house is haunted, he’s happy to buy the home, the furniture, and the ghost! The gist of the story is pretty straight forward – An American family is getting ready to purchase an English Country house. Published in 1887 in the magazine The Court and Society Review, this story was Wilde’s first published fiction (he’d already published plenty of poetry). The Canterville Ghost isn’t very long and you can read it over at Project Gutenberg and there’s a free audio version on LibriVox as well. In a round about way, i guess Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost is an ancestor of light hearted urban fantasy, non-horror ghost stories, and maybe even Casper the Friendly Ghost type stories? It might also be an ancestor of another ghost story, but I’ll get to that one later! It was written more than 100 years ago, so it’s certainly vintage, but it isn’t very SF-y or even fantasy-y. I’m not sure if this story qualifies as vintage science fiction. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Will the person who mentioned this story to me please stand up? Someone recommended or mentioned Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, either on their blog or a comments section somewhere or on twitter, or maybe I read about this on tor.com or somewhere else, and I want to know who recommended this to me, so I can thank them. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. ![]() Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).
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