The haunted house elizabeth gaskell biography
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The haunted house elizabeth gaskell biography
The Haunted House (story)
1859 story series in All the Year Round
"The Haunted House" is a set of short stories published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round.[1] It was "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with Charles Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors.[1]
Stories
Publication history
The stories appeared in the Extra Christmas Number on 13 December 1859.
Dickens began a tradition of Christmas publications with A Christmas Carol in 1843 and his Christmas stories soon became a national institution. The Haunted House was his 1859 offering.
In Dickens's opening story, The Mortals in the House, the narrator's ("John") health "required a temporary residence in the country." Knowing this, a friend of the narrator had chanced to drive by the house—situated close to a railroad stop mid-way between Northern England and London—and had written to the narrator suggest