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Horror Stories | The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde Synopsis The American Minister to the Court of St James’s, Hiram B. Otis, and his family move into Canterville Chase, an English country house, despite warnings from Lord Canterville that the house is haunted. Mr Otis says that he will take the furniture as well as the ghost at valuation. The Otis family includes Mr and Mrs Otis, their eldest son Washington, their daughter Virginia, and the Otis twins. At first, none of the Otis family believes in ghosts, but shortly after they move in, none of them can deny the presence of Sir Simon de Canterville. Mrs Otis notices a mysterious bloodstain on the floor, and comments that “She does not at all care for bloodstains in the living room“: Mrs Umney, the housekeeper, tells her that the bloodstain is evidence of the ghost and cannot be removed. However, Washington Otis, the eldest son, suggests that the stain will be removed with Pinkerton’s Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent. Whe