The Ostler

'The Ostler" was originally published in 1855 as a short story, which later became the foundation for the much longer story 'The Dream Woman.' It is one of Wilkie Collins' first supernatural stories, revolving around the forty-year-old Isaac Scatchard, who has a very strange dream of a young woman – or wasn't it a dream, but a ghost? Seven years later he even gets more lost when he encounters a wo...