A Haunted House and other stories - Virginia Woolf

A woman sits alone in a room. She gazes at a mark on the wall and ponders its origin for ten long pages. Eventually her husband walks in and says "What's that snail doing on the wall?" and lobs it out the window. Finis.

Woolf can really disappear in a fog of obscurity at times, but when she anchors her stories in social reality I find her much more interesting. This is a patchy collection but it has its moments, and it was fun to see Clarissa Dalloway pop up in a couple of stories.