About This Book
Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over, setting them the task of driving out the ghosts from the various rooms and reporting back on Twelfth Night. The resulting ghost stories form the basis of a thrilling narrative. For this work, commissioned for his periodical "e;All the Year Round"e;, Dickens enlisted some of the period's most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic. For this work, commissioned for his periodical "e;All the Year Round"e;, Dickens enlisted some of the period's most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic. This edition contains a wealth of material about the author's life and works, notes and a bibliographic section.
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Table of contents
- The Haunted House
- Chapter 1: The Mortals in the House by Charles Dickens
- Chapter 2: The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton
- Chapter 3: The Ghost in the Double Room by George Augustus Sala
- Chapter 4: The Ghost in the Picture Room by Adelaide Anne Procter
- Chapter 5: The Ghost in the Cupboard Room by Wilkie Collins
- Chapter 6: The Ghost in Master B.âs Room by Charles Dickens
- Chapter 7: The Ghost in the Garden Room by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Chapter 8: The Ghost in the Corner Room by Charles Dickens
- Note on the Text
- Notes
- Extra Material