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Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens · 1859 · Horror & Gothic
Three unsettling tales set in a haunted house, a murder trial, and a lonely railway cutting bring ordinary men face to face with apparitions and warnings they cannot explain.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 50 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Three Ghost Stories: The Principal CastThe principal figures across the three stories.
Three Ghost Stories: Additional CharactersOther villagers, household members, and trial figures.
The Cast at the PoplarsThe Haunted House characters
The Poplars and the Unnamed Village
The Railway Cutting and Tunnel
The Story at the Village InnJohn asks the village innkeeper and Ikey about Poplars.
The House in the DaylightThe narrator reaches the Poplars and hears the village’s account.
The Summons at the DoorA strange visitor appears before the jury summons arrives.
This edition
- Title
- Three Ghost Stories
- Author
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
- First published
- 1859
- Illustrated plates
- 93 original artworks · 50 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 7 · about 21,169 words
- Reading time
- 1 h 25 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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