Abstract
This essay explores the trope of the (not-quite) empty house in a selection of writings by Walter de la Mare and Katherine Mansfield. It considers the ways in which both writers depict haunted (and haunting) houses that contain physical traces of the individuals who only ever occupy them on a temporary basis. In particular, the essay focuses on de la Mare’s short stories ‘Out of the Deep’ and ‘The House’ and Mansfield’s ‘Prelude’. Ultimately, it suggests that each writer locates their hauntings in profoundly material terms by depicting ghostly presences with indelible links to the things that endure long after the stories’ protagonists have departed.
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