Here and Beyond
by Edith Wharton
Here and Further is a collection of six short stories featuring ghost stories, social dramas, and character explorations set in Brittany, New England, and Morocco. Two of these tales, "The Young Gentleman" and "The Magician," reflect a different Gothic with an emphasis on approaching architecture and the gradual revelation of hidden secrets. The first story, Mrs. Mary Pasque, pays a strong tribute to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of Asher's House" with the character of the same name, who suffers from a "cataleptic trance" that leaves him with the appearance of death. In the resolution, Wharton deviates from the more disastrous solution proposed by Poe, but emphasizes the fragility of the narrator.
