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.
- The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 :
- "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- The final six were unpublished, although only "Moments of Being" and "The Searchlight" were finally revised by Virginia Woolf herself :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"
Famous quotes containing the words haunted, house and/or short:
“I am haunted by interrupted acts,
introspective as a leper, enchanted
by a repulsive clew,
a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs.
Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, “I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.” I mean people are going to say, “You’re crazy.” Plus they’re going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that’s a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.”
—Diane Arbus (1923–1971)
“It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be,
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May
Although it fall and die that night;
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)