Short Story filter: What is the title and who wrote it?

November 22, 2006 11:45 AM

Short Story filter: What is the title and who wrote it?

I remember a short story where a man was having tea (I think) with a woman who kept talking about her dead husband. She talked about how he loved to go hunting on mornings just like this one, etc. After a while the man sees the 'ghost' of the dead husband walking across the fields towards the house. He gets completely spooked and runs away.

The husband, of course, is not dead: the wife was playing a joke on the visitor.

posted by trinity8-director to writing & language (3 comments total)

Sounds like something Roald Dahl would have written.
posted by interrobang at 11:55 AM on November 22, 2006

I think you are thinking of "The Open Window" by Saki (H.H. Munro).
posted by Pater Aletheias at 12:08 PM on November 22, 2006

That is it! Thanks!
posted by trinity8-director at 12:30 PM on November 22, 2006