The Canterville Ghost

"The Canterville Ghost" — a witty play with the genre of Gothic horror transformed into comedy, Oscar Wilde's debut in prose.
The combination of satire and the supernatural subsequently inspired many authors and filmmakers, and the story itself is still... dearly loved by readers today.
The Otis family moves from America to England and settles in Canterville Chase, where, according to rumors, a terrible ghost resides. But in advanced times, when a solution has already been devised and patented for every problem, it is the living who should not fear the dead, but the dead who should fear the living…
The book also includes the stories "The Sphinx Without a Secret," "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," "The Remarkable Rocket," and "The Canterville Ghost."