To Be Read at Dusk is an 1852 short story written by Charles Dickens, and was first published in The Keepsake.
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. One 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
- "To be Read at Dusk, by Charles Dickens". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- Ruth Glancy’s “To Be Read at Dusk,” The Dickensian 83.1 (1987): 40-7.
- 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.
