The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Haunted Man. A Christmas Story by Ch-r-s D-c-k-n-s, Condensed by Francis Bret Harte [from the Californian]

Harte, Francis Bret. "The Haunted Man. A Christmas Story by Ch-r-s D-c-k-n-s, Condensed by Francis Bret Harte [from the Californian]." New York Saturday Press, February 10, 1866, 81-82.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

This story loosely follows that of Dickens's "A Christmas Story," but the man is haunted more by Dickens then by actual spirits. When he awakens, he is so happy that he quadruples a employee salary just for reading "David Copperfield."