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by American author Elia Wilkins Peattie
First published in the short story collection The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales in 1898
Miss Lydia Carew was the epitome of genteel society when she was alive, and had every intention of making certain that her heirs were appropriately sophisticated after her death. Upon inheriting her property, the Boggs sisters realize that the only thing worse than being disapproved of by the ghost of Lydia Carew, was being accepted by her.