"Cool" v "Hot" ghost stories

Three stories grouped together in LofA "American Fantastic Tales": James's The Jolly Corner, Edith Wharton's (title?), and Willa Cather's "Afterwards" (am I the only one who confuses Wharton and Cather?). They make a good set - they are "cool" ghost stories - and they show how American ghost stories begin to emerge in the early 20th century and how they differ from the earlier type. James's is about a man haunted by a ghost (an image of himself?) in his childhood home; Wharton's about a rouee who is pursued by a ghost of a man he had wronged; Wharton's, similarly, is about a man haunted by a ghost of a man he had wronged in business. A hugely important element in each story is the verification of the ghost - in each case another sane or objective observer sees the ghost. So we've moved away from the idea that the haunted are the insane, the disturbed: "hot" ghost stories. Also, we've moved away from the idea tht ghosts are strange, supernatural, or odious. Each of the ghosts in these stories could (and does) walk the street and appear normal. Only the haunted knows the ghost as a specter. The James story actually has a happy ending (couple embraces), but the Wharton and Cather stories do not: the ghost exacts revenge and the young man kills himself (Wharton) and the businessman vanishes (Cather). These are stories of revenge - the ghost becomes an agent. Despite their settings - esp the Cather story, set in a British Tudor manse - they don't feel especially ghostly or fantastic. The existence of a ghost is accepted as a premise that makes the story possible. But these stories come out of the age of industry and prosperity - the American century - and you can see that they were written for a specific market, the literary magazines so popular 100 years ago and gone today, replaced, as a source of income for writers, by university teaching posts.