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    Ghost in the Double Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    Ghost in the Double Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    Ghost in the Double Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Ghost in the Double Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

    By George Augustus Sala, Charles Dickens and Varla Ventura

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    Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.

    In the third of the stories set in the Haunted Houseof Charles Dickens, Salas' story introduces us to the Ghost of the Ague and the sad tale of the Ghost in the Double Room.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateFeb 10, 2012
    ISBN9781619400443
    Ghost in the Double Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

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      Ghost in the Double Room - George Augustus Sala

      Dickens Fever Dreams

      The Haunted House was published in an 1894 collection of three short stories by Charles Dickens, under the title Christmas Stories, which is where I stumbled upon it. But as I researched further, I found that the tale was first published in 1859 in All Year Round, a publication for which Dickens served as editor. This grouping contained a unique collection of stories under the same title, with Dickens writing the introductory and closing texts. The other stories were penned by writers of the time whom Dickens invited to contribute a tale of their own set within one of the many haunted rooms of his house.

      In his introduction, Dickens sets the stage for the paranormal parlor games that the protagonist invites his friends to join in. An abandoned house with rooms featuring names such as The Picture Room and The Clock Room is inhabited by a skeptical man who invites each of his dearest friends and relatives to visit over the magical Twelfth Night of Christmas. It was often believed that the Twelfth Night of Christmas had a supernatural power—not unlike our current feeling for Halloween being a good time to communicate with those who have shuffled off this mortal coil.

      He writes:

      The understanding was established, that anyone who heard unusual noises in the night, and who wished to trace them, should knock at my door; lastly, that on Twelfth Night, the last night of holy Christmas, all our individual experiences since that then present hour of our coming together in the haunted house, should be brought to light for the good of all; and that we would hold our peace on the subject till then, unless on some remarkable provocation to break silence.

      George Augustus Henry Sala was a Londoner by birth (1792), of whose early writing Charles Dickens became a fan. Dickens published both articles and stories by him, including this selection from The Haunted House. Sala

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