Charles Dickens

The Haunted House Annotated Charles Dickens

The Haunted House"" by Charles Dickens is actually a compilation work, with contributions from Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Adelaide Anne Procter, ? Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Each writer, including Dickens, writes one "chapter" of the tale. The premise is that a group of people has come to a well-known haunted house to stay for a period of time, experience whatever supernatural elements might be there to experience, then regroup at the end of their stay to share their stories. Each author represents a specific person within the tale and, while the genre is that of the ghost story.