The Haunted Orchard
Richard Le Gallienne's 'The Haunted Orchard' is a lyrical ghost story that blends pastoral romanticism with the supernatural, published in the early 20th century during the author's peak years as a decadent poet and essayist. The narrator rents a remote Connecticut farmhouse seeking solitude and encounters the spectral presence of a young woman whose tragic love story unfolds through mysterious singing and a buried cache of love letters. Readers should expect a delicate, melancholic tale suffused with French Romantic sensibility, where the boundaries between dream and reality dissolve in the enchanted silence of an ancient orchard.