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Ghost Stories

The Haunted House

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  • 1859 first published
  • 51 pages
  • 261 editions
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Published in 1859, The Haunted House is a ghost story novella by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Much of the action takes place in England. It deals with haunted houses.

26 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 261 editions.

At about 51 pages, most readers finish it in about 55 minutes.

About The Haunted House

The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal?
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Opening line

“Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece.”

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Subjects

  • Haunted houses
  • Ghost stories
  • British and irish fiction, Fictional works by one author

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote The Haunted House?

The Haunted House was written by Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and first published in 1859.

What genre is The Haunted House?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories.

How long is The Haunted House?

The median edition has 51 pages, about about 55 minutes of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Haunted House?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Screaming Staircase, White Is for Witching and Footsteps in the Dark.

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