{"product_id":"9781619401136","title":"The Haunted House of 1859: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eVarla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1859 Christmas edition of his regular publication, \u003ci\u003eAll Year Round\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Dickens solicited his favorite authors to take up residence in his Haunted House. With an introductory story by Dickens (\u003ci\u003eThe Mortals in the House\u003c\/i\u003e) each author writes from the point of view of the ghost residing in a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Twelfth Night of Christmas, a night believed to hold supernatural powers, the ghost begin to speak. Adelaide Anne Procter, who was Queen Victoria’s favorite poet, delivers the tale of “The Ghost in the Picture Room” entirely in rhyming verse. Wilkie Collins, a lifelong friend of Dickens and a well known author and playwright, delights with his nautical story of “The Ghost in the Cupboard Room.” And Elizabeth Gaskell, in the longest of the stories in the collection, paints a vivid portrait of the ghost of a judge in “The Ghost in the Garden Room.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor any lover of Dickens, Gaskell, or even just a good ghost story, this unique collection will warm the heart and chill the bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Wheel\/Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169591476464,"sku":"9781619401136","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619401136_p0.jpg?v=1763856017","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619401136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}