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The Haunted House in All the Year Round (1859) "The Haunted House" is a set of short stories published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round. [1] It was "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with Charles Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors.
ISBN 0-14-303939-3 and The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories. Penguin Classics, 2006. ISBN 0-14-303992-X. Lubbock, S. G. (1939). A Memoir of Montague Rhodes James ... with a list of his writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Murphy, Patrick J. (2017). Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James. University Park ...
The play Mostellaria, by the Roman playwright Plautus, is the earliest known work to feature a haunted dwelling, and is sometimes translated as The Haunted House. [10] Another early account of a haunted place comes from an account by Pliny the Younger (c. 50 AD). [11]
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
Meanwhile, the third original story Harry and the Haunted House, was written by Schlichting himself. [88] Convinced that his concept for electronic books would work, he had written the story in 1988 specifically for the computer but never published it in paper form until the Living Books version was released. [13]
The horror inherent in the novel does not lie in Hill House (monstrous though it is) or the events that take place within it, but in the unexplored recesses of its characters' – and its readers' – minds. This is perhaps why it remains the definitive haunted house story". [13] In 2016, in The Guardian, author Joanne Harris described the book as:
A Haunted House is a 1944 collection of 18 short stories by Virginia Woolf. It was produced by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death although in the foreword he states that they had discussed its production together. [1] The first six stories appeared in her only previous collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921 : [2] "A Haunted House" "Monday ...
The Haunted Doll's House" is a 1923 short story by M. R. James, collected by him in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). It was commissioned by Queen Mary , wife of George V , as a miniature book for her famous Dolls' House , which can still be seen in Windsor Castle .