The haunted house
By: Charles Dickens & various authors
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft; Ulverscroft Softcover
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781444823974
Subjects: Haunted houses; Fiction; Ghost stories; Christmas stories
Description: "In 1859, various literary luminaries - including Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins - collaborated on a serialised work concerning events in a most peculiar house. This is their tale ... When our narrator espies a deserted house from his railway carriage, he cannot resist the challenge of taking up residence in a place no one else will inhabit. Local legend has terrified the nearby villagers, who in turn convince his servants to abandon ship. Undaunted, he and his sister invite a group of friends to join them - each of whom is then commissioned to rout out the supernatural from their respective rooms. And come Twelfth Night, they will meet to recount their experiences ..."
Notes: Complete and unabridged.
Table of contents: title: The mortals in the house / by Charles Dickens; title: The Ghost in the clock room / by Hesba Stretton; title: The Ghost in the double room / by George Augustus Sala; title: The Ghost in the picture room / by Adelaide Anne Proctor; title: The Ghost in the cupboard room / by Wilkie Collins; title: The Ghost in Master B's room / by Charles Dickens; title: The Ghost in the garden room / by Elizabeth Gaskell; title: The Ghost in the corner room / by Charles Dickens.