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“Ghosts�� is Edith Wharton’s selection of her own supernatural stories, and she does many impressive things with this forever intriguing genre. “Pomegranate Seed�� and “Mr. Jones�� are among the best, while “Kerfol�� is the most unusual and “A Bottle of Perrier�� is excellent until the finale, when it doesn’t turn out to be an actual ghost story. “Miss Mary Pask�� suffers from an anticlimactic ending, but most of the others are very effective of their kind. The book’s most gratifying feature is Wharton’s unfailingly graceful prose, a constant pleasure that comes as no surprise at all.