SOURCE: "Pirandello's Haunted House," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. X, No. 3, Summer, 1973, pp. 235-42.

An Italian-born American educator and critic specializing in Italian literature, Ragusa is the author of Narrative and Drama: Essays in Modern Italian Literature from Verga to Pasolini (1976) as well as book-length studies on Pirandello, Giovanni Verga, and Alessandro Manzoni. In this essay, she explicates Pirandello 's ghost story "Granella 's House " as a commentary on the limits of reason and science.

Richard Kelly's recent "The Haunted House of Bulwer-Lytton" (Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 8) calls to mind Pirandello's "La casa del Granella," a story first published in 1905 and which later became part of Pirandello's short story summa, Novelle per un anno. It appears to have been translated into English twice, once with the title of "Granella's House" and the second time as "The Haunted House." Aside from inclusion in collections of Pirandello stories...