A Haunted House and Other Short Stories explained

A Haunted House
Author:	Virginia Woolf
Cover Artist:	Vanessa Bell
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Publisher:	Hogarth Press
Pub Date:	January 1944
Media Type:	Print (hardcover)
Pages:	124 pp

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 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• The final six were unpublished, although only "Moments of Being" and "The Searchlight" were finally revised by Virginia Woolf herself :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"

External links

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

Notes and References

1. foreword by Leonard Woolf, 1st edition
2. Web site: Monday or Tuesday Archives. Collection at Bartleby.com.