The plot is one that leaves the reader chuckling at every turn. He had a successful career as a journalist and poet and consequently turned to fiction and drama. It appeared in a magazine in 1887 and provides a prophetic glimpse into Wilde's genius for comic timing, dialogue and situational comedy. The Canterville Ghost was the first of Oscar Wilde's short stories to be published. Yet, the reader is totally unprepared for Oscar Wilde's brand of tongue in cheek humor as he takes all the ingredients of a traditional ghost story and turns it on its head, and creates a hilarious parody instead of a morbid saga! The story progresses with creaking floor boards, mysterious passages, dark attics, clanking chains, and weird howling. They're warned by the owner that it is haunted by a most horrifying and gruesome spirit who had once cruelly murdered his own wife. An American diplomat's family moves into an ancient stately mansion.
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