A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

A Haunted House
1st edition cover
Author(s)	Virginia Woolf
Cover artist	Vanessa Bell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short story
Publisher	Hogarth Press
Publication date	January 1944
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	124 pp
ISBN	NA

A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together.^[1]

• The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 :^[2]
  • "A Haunted House"
  • "Monday or Tuesday"
  • "An Unwritten Novel"
  • "The String Quartet"
  • "Kew Gardens"
  • "The Mark on the Wall"
• The next six appeared appeared in magazines between 1922 and 1941 :
  • "The New Dress"
  • "The Shooting Party"
  • "Lappin and Lappinova"
  • "Solid Objects"
  • "The Lady in the Looking-Glass"
  • "The Duchess and the Jeweller"
• The final six were unpublished, although only "Moments of Being" and "The Searchlight" were finally revised by Virginia Woolf herself :
  • "Moments of Being"
  • "The Man who Loved his Kind"
  • "The Searchlight"
  • "The Legacy"
  • "Together and Apart"
  • "A Summing Up"

References

1. ^ foreword by Leonard Woolf, 1st edition
2. ^ http://www.bartleby.com/85/

External links

• The Legacy, full text and audio file
• The Searchlight, full text and audio file

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