Haunted House Illustrated

By: Dickens, Charkes

The story 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 suggesting he travel down from the North and look the place over. It was a large mid-eighteenth-century manor house on two square acres with a "sadly neglected garden," recently cheaply repaired, and "much too closely and heavily shadowed by trees." The house itself is "stiff . . . cold . . . and] formal" and "in as bad taste, as could possibly be desired by the most loyal admirer of the whole quartet of King] Georges." It was "ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted." It was "damp . . . not free from dry rot" and redolent with the "flavor of rats.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 167994746X
• ISBN13: 9781679947469
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 51 Pages
• Weight: 0.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"