# The Haunted Homestead: A Novel

Author: Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, 1819-1899

Genre: Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36713

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Haunted+Homestead%3A+A+Novel+Southworth&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There was an account of an execution item that met my eyes in glancing over the columns of a newspaper. It made no more impression upon me at the time than such paragraphs make upon you or any of us. My glance slided over that to the next items, chronicling in order the success of a benevolent ball, the arrival of a popular singer, etc.; and I should have forgotten all about it had not the execution occurred near the plantation of a dear friend, with whom I was accustomed to pass a part of every year. From that friend I heard the story--a domestic tragedy, which, for its inspirations of pity and terror equaled any old Greek drama that I ever read. I know not if I can do anything like just...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunted-homestead-a-novel-36713/chapters/16/index.md)