Charles Dickens"To be read at dusk" (a ghost story) 1852

To Be Read at Dusk was first published in Heath’s Keepsake.
An interesting, unusual piece of Dickens of interest to anyone studying A Christmas Carol as a GCSE set text. Ghosts.Dusk, the Continent all combine in the narrative , as five couriers talk outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass These are overheard by the narrator as two of their group’s members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons her husband for a man who had previously appeared in her nightmares, and another of a man who sees an apparition of his brother, and is thereby warned of the latter’s death.