The Library

The library at Lyng is the central setting, as it is where Mary is standing at the beginning of the story as well as the place to which she continues to return as she searches for her husband. It is where Ned works on his writing and where Mary begins to learn the details of her husband's past business ventures with the Blue Star Mine. The library is also the place where Mary frequently experiences the feeling of being surrounded by the supernatural, although the narrator does not explicitly say so. Instead, Mary's time in the library is described as "a vague dread of the unknown" (15). The library is therefore the place where Mary comes as close to the ghostliness of Lyng as possible without necessarily realizing it.

The roof

The roof is where Mary and Ned first see the ghost of Elwell, although at the time...