The Haunted House
Charles Dickens
Random House Publishing Group
<p>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, <i>The Haunted House</i> 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.<br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></br></br></p>