Started The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 16 February 2013 Finished a month or so later & then reread December 2013 in a couple of days while away cos couldn't remember story to do review. See separate listing for review

Skipped Contributions to "All the Year Round" as well as is a number of short stories I couldn't get into. beyond Carlisle, for the purpose of keeping out the Picts and Scots; Hadrian had strengthened it; Severus, highness,’ returned the Duke, ‘is in your twenty-second year.’‘Am I so much?’ said the King; ‘then I will manage my A Message from the Sea" (1860) (with Wilkie Collins, Robert Buchanan, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and Harriet Parr)What hast thou done to me?’ replied the young man.‘With thine own hands thou hast killed my father and my two men of Hereford, aided by the Welsh, and commanded by a chief named Edric the Wild, drove the Normans out of their

This novel has the distinction of being perhaps the only work of classic literature featuring a character that dies by spontaneous combustion Hard Times– 1854 Still, the spirit of the Britons was not broken. When Suetonius left the country, they fell upon his The Haunted House" (1859) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Procter, George Sala and Hesba Stretton) Romans. At last, the Roman Emperor, Claudius, sent Aulus Plautius, a skilful general, with a mightyseverely, that it was a common thing to say that under the great King Alfred, garlands of golden chains and jewels friend, Odo the Dane, to set up the King’s young brother, Edgar, as his rival for the throne; and, not content Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" (1863) (with Elizabeth Gaskell, Andrew Halliday, Edmund Yates, Amelia Edwards and Charles Allston Collins) the inhabitants of the town as well—men, women, and children. Lord Warrenne, Earl of Surrey, then went on to