A Phantom Lover

The titular short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee. A traditional psychological ghost story, ‘A Phantom Lover’ tells the story of an artist who is commissioned to paint eccentric couple Mr and Mrs Oke of Okehurst. But the Okes have a dark family history, and the fateful events of two centuries previous come back to haunt them…