As they walk home in the cold after the reading, her father’s health worsens and he dies shortly after, leaving Eliza blaming Dickens for his death. It begins in London with a public reading by Charles Dickens, attended by young schoolteacher Eliza Caine and her invalid father, a big admirer of Dickens. This House is Haunted is a wonderful Victorian-style ghost story and a perfect October read. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind.” “I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. A lonely mansion, a young governess, two young children in white nightgowns, servants who seem to vanish into thin air, villagers who refuse to answer any questions, gusts of wind that blow up out of nowhere and disappear as suddenly as they came…
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