Haunted House

A group of friends rent a rambling, reputedly haunted house for the winter - and, refusing to be frightened off, each claims a bedroom and a story to tell. What follows is vintage Dickens at his most playful and unsettling: comic asides sliding without warning into genuine dread, ghostly footsteps, and secrets no one quite wants to explain in daylight. Written as a Christmas number for his magazin...