The Ghost in Master B's Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
By Charles Dickens 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.
From 1859's Christmas edition of All Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens, a collection set in an abandoned house where the guests are each asked to take up residence in one of the haunted rooms on the Twelfth Night of Christmas (a night of high magical power when the veil between the mortal and the spirit world was thinnest). Read what lurks in Master B.'s room.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. Regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, Dickens had a prolific collection of works including fifteen novels, five novellas, and hundreds of short stories and articles. The term “cliffhanger endings” was created because of his practice of ending his serial short stories with drama and suspense. Dickens’ political and social beliefs heavily shaped his literary work. He argued against capitalist beliefs, and advocated for children’s rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens advocacy for such causes is apparent in his empathetic portrayal of lower classes in his famous works, such as The Christmas Carol and Hard Times.
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The Ghost in Master B's Room - Charles Dickens
B Is for Bone
Today's haunting is brought to you today by the letter B.
B is for burial. B is for broken neck. B is for body at the bottom of the lake. B is for the boy who haunted this book.
The Haunted House was first published in 1859 in All Year Round, a publication for which Charles Dickens served as editor. It was specifically in a Christmas supplement
to the publication, consisting of a unique collection of stories for which Dickens wrote 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, 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 in an abandoned dwelling 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 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