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

    By Adelaide Anne Procter and Varla Ventura

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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.

    The fourth story in Dickens' Haunted House collection written by Queen Victoria's favorite poet, Adelaide Anne Procter, is a true tale of terror, in verse!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619400696
    The Ghost in the Picture Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

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      The Ghost in the Picture Room - Adelaide Anne Procter

      A Story Fit for a Queen

      The Haunted House was first published in 1859 in All Year Round, a publication for which Charles Dickens served as editor. It was a Christmas supplement to the publication, consisting of a unique collection of stories under the title The Haunted House. Dickens wrote the introductory and closing stories. The other stories were written by writers of the time whom Dickens invited to contribute a tale of their own set in one of the many haunted rooms of The Haunted House.

      In his introduction, The Mortals of the House, Dickens sets the stage for the paranormal parlor games that the protagonist invites his friends to join in. A skeptical man, he sets up house and invites each of his dearest friends to visit over the magical Twelfth Night of Christmas to investigate the ghosts of such rooms as The Picture Room and The Clock Room. It was often believed that the Twelfth Night of Christmas had a supernatural power—not unlike our current feeling for Halloween

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