Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was no stranger to telling a scary ghost story. His "Legends of the Province House" was mentioned as being exemplary by H.P. Lovecraft and his 1835 story titled "Graves and Goblins" is quite good. But this post is about Lady Eleanor's Mantle , which floats in at the 16th spot in my countdown of the scary ghost stories for the first half of the nineteenth century. "Lady Eleanor's Mantle" is a ghostly tale of pestilence and because of that it dra