A Headless Earl, a Strangled Babe, the Blood-Sucker of Bexley Moor and the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn—these are just some of the many guises that Sir Simon, the ghost who haunts Canterville Chase, can assume. He has frightened English tenants for hundreds of years and is proud of it. So he is shocked when the Otises, an American family, take residence: they’re not scared at all. He schemes, and they thwart his plans. Who will win in the end, and when will Sir Simon de Canterville finally rest in peace?