On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly
haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering
evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the
holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast
and share their stories of spectral encounter. “Conducted” by
Charles Dickens and counting Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins
among its contributors, The Haunted House examines
quintessentially Victorian themes–sex and longing, nostalgia and
loss–in ways that continue to resonate today. Ingeniously conceived
and written, and spiked with flashes of Dickensian humor, this
volume is a strange and sheer delight.
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