MISS MARY PASK, A SHORT STORY BY EDITH WHARTON

In the mist-shrouded solitude of the Baie des Trépassés, a weary traveler seeks out Mary Pask, an old acquaintance long forgotten. What begins as a simple act of duty-fulfilling a promise to her sister-soon spirals into an eerie encounter beyond reason. The house by the sea stands quiet, lost in the fog, yet something stirs within. A candle flickers, a voice calls, and the woman he meets is unmistakably Mary Pask… but Mary Pask has been dead for a year.
Is it fevered hallucination, a trick of memory, or has he stepped into a realm where the dead still speak? As night deepens and the waves crash hungrily below, the traveler must face an unthinkable truth-some souls are too lonely to rest.