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

    By Hesba Stretton

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    Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual.

    First published in 1859's Christmas edition of All Year Round, a publication edited by Charles Dickens, as a collection of tales centered around Dickens' own story about The Haunted House. Set in an abandoned house where the guests are all asked to take up residence in one of each of the rooms and spend the Twelfth Night of Christmas (once believed to be a night of highest magical power when the veil between the mortal and the sprit world was thinnest). In a Clue-like evening, each of the rooms is inhabited and Dickens published the collection of eight stories with different authors writing from the point of view of the ghosts in each room. Join Englishwoman and popular author of the 1800s Hesba Stretton aka Sarah Smith as she recalls the story of the Ghost in the Clock Room.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9781619400344
    The Ghost in the Clock Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

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      The Ghost in the Clock Room - Hesba Stretton

      We all grew up with Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. If you didn't read the book, you have surely seen either the Disney version featuring Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge or one of the countless made-for-TV reenactments. True to its Victorian roots, this tale's strong moral about the evils of greed and hoarding remains as true today as it did then. But what do I like best about this classic? It has ghosts! Ghosts of the past, the present, and the future, a veritable three-card Tarot spread of supernatural significance. It is one of the things I most look forward to when the season of bright and shiny presents and happy elves begins to cloy.

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

      Hesba Stretton was the pen name of an English gentlewoman called Sarah Smith. She became a contributor to All Year Round when her sister submitted a piece without Sarah's knowledge which Dickens accepted for publication. She is most well known for having written a book in 1866 called Jessica's First Prayer, which had sold over a million and a half copies by the end of the nineteenth century! She died in 1911.

      In his story, Dickens sets the stage for the paranormal parlor games that the protagonist invites his friends to join in. The abandoned house with rooms featuring names such as the Picture Room

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