Long Unseen By Readers, H.G. Wells Ghost Story Finally Debuts In Print

"H.G. Wells' eerie writing brought us time machines, aliens and a submarine, long before a real one was seen in the world. Still, one of his short stories spent decades unseen by his avid readers."

"Until now, that is."

"His long-unpublished story 'The Haunted Ceiling' is making its way into print for the first time. In its new issue, The Strand Magazine is publishing the story — which features a man driven mad by the image of a dead woman, with her throat slit, appearing on his ceiling."

"The magazine's managing editor, Andrew Gulli, says he found the manuscript among the tens of thousands of pages of works by H.G. Wells at the University of Illinois."

"'It's been there for a very, very long time — yet for some reason, nobody knew anything about this story,' Gulli tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer."