To Be Read at Dusk

"To Be Read at Dusk"
Short story by Charles Dickens
"To Be Read at Dusk" was first published in the 1852 edition of The Keepsake .
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Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publication
Published in	The Keepsake
Publication date	1852

"To Be Read at Dusk" is an 1852 short story written by Charles Dickens, first published in The Keepsake . ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Plot summary

Five couriers talking amongst themselves outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass are overheard by the narrator, as two of their group's members relate short ghost stories. The first story is of a young woman who disappears, apparently taken from her newly-wed husband by a mysterious man who had previously appeared in her nightmares; the second is of a man who sees an apparition of his brother, and is thereby warned of the latter's death.

References

1. "To be Read at Dusk, by Charles Dickens". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
2. Ruth Glancy's “To Be Read at Dusk,” The Dickensian 83.1 (1987): 40-7.
3. Kimberley, Jackson (1 June 2009). "Dangerous Similitude in Charles Dickens' "To Be Read at Dusk"". Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle (52). Retrieved 22 February 2018.

External links

• "To Be Read at Dusk" title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database