The Haunted House 💛 By Charles Dickens. FULL Audiobook

The Haunted House. By Charles Dickens. Full Audiobook "The Haunted House" is a collection of short stories published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round. The stories were "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with Charles Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors. The stories are "The Mortals in the House" (Charles Dickens), "The Ghost in the Clock Room" (Hesba Stretton), "The Ghost in the Double Room" (George Augustus Sala), "The Ghost in the Picture Room" (Adelaide Anne Procter), "The Ghost in the Cupboard Room" (Wilkie Collins), "The Ghost in Master B's Room" (Charles Dickens), and "The Ghost in the Garden Room" (Elizabeth Gaskell). The book opens with "The Mortals in the House," where the narrator's health "required a temporary residence in the country." Knowing this, a friend of the narrator had chanced to drive by the house—situated close to a railroad stop mid-way between Northern England and London—and had written to the narrator suggesting he travel down from the North and look the place over. It was a large mid-eighteenth-century manor house on two square acres with a "sadly neglected garden," recently cheaply repaired, and "much too closely and heavily shadowed by trees." The house itself is "stiff ... cold ... [and] formal" and "in as bad taste, as could possibly be desired by the most loyal admirer of the whole quartet of [King] Georges." It was "ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted." It was "damp ... not free from dry rot" and redolent with the "flavour of rats." The house's reputation for being haunted has caused it to become "an avoided house," and although the narrator decides to rent it for six months (from October to March) and live there with his spinster sister (Patty), they cannot retain any servants due to a plethora of bizarre house noises. Therefore, by mid-November, Patty suggests that she and John "take the house wholly and solely into our own hands" and live without servants, with the exception of Bottles the stable-man who is deaf and therefore not bothered by the haunted noises. Patty further suggests that they invite a group of friends to come down and form a "Society" that would occupy the house for three months and "see what happens" as far as supernatural activity in the house is concerned. The book is a collection of ghost stories, each written by a different author. The stories are all set in the same haunted house, and each one tells the tale of a different ghost that haunts the house. The stories are all very different, but they are all connected by the house and the people who live there. The book is a great read for anyone who loves ghost stories or who is a fan of Charles Dickens. The book is well-written and the stories are all very engaging. If you are looking for a good ghost story, then "The Haunted House" is definitely worth reading.. More: Charles Dickens, The Haunted House, Gothic story All the Year Round, John, Guest authors Christmas publications, Christmas stories, Victorian themes Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Sex Longing, Nostalgia, Loss 00:00:00 The Mortals in the House 00:41:53 The Ghost in the Clock Room 01:15:34 The Ghost in the Double Room 01:49:54 The Ghost in the Picture Room 02:10:34 The Ghost in the Cupboard Room 02:42:58 The Ghost in Master B.’s Room 03:07:52 The Ghost in the Garden Room 04:54:03 The Ghost in the Corner Room