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A review by jersy
The Haunted House by Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Peter Ackroyd, Hesba Stretton
4.0
Surprisingly, this isn't actually a collection of ghost stories. It's an anthology with a framing device set in a haunted house, however the stories told are at the most losely connected to the "haunted" theme and rather all kinds of different tales. There is a mix of a humorous lovestory, an adventure story, comedy, a poem etc.
I immensely enjoyed the writing style of all of the authors, though there was a single story of which content I didn't much care for. My highlights were definitely Dickens' frame story, wherein he used every opportunity to parody well known haunted house tropes, as well as the contributions by Gaskell and Stretton.
I immensely enjoyed the writing style of all of the authors, though there was a single story of which content I didn't much care for. My highlights were definitely Dickens' frame story, wherein he used every opportunity to parody well known haunted house tropes, as well as the contributions by Gaskell and Stretton.