All The Year Round - Collaborative Works

Collaborative Works

Dickens would also collaborate with other staff writers on a number of Christmas stories and plays for seasonal issues of the magazine. These included:

• The Haunted House in the Extra Christmas Number (13 December 1859) with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell (who notoriously rejected Dickens' offers to write for the magazine), Adelaide Anne Procter, George Augustus Henry Sala, and Hesba Stretton.
• A Message from the Sea in the Extra Christmas Number (13 December 1860) with Wilkie Collins, Robert Williams Buchanan (under the name "Henry F. Chorley"), Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards, and Harriet Parr.
• Tom Tiddler's Ground in the Extra Christmas Number (12 December 1861) with Wilkie Collins, John Harwood, Charles Collins, and Amelia Edwards.
• Somebody's Luggage (1862).
• Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings in the Extra Christmas Number (12 December 1863) with Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Lever, Amelia Edwards, Charles Allston Collins, & Edmund H. Yates.
• Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy in the Extra Christmas Number (12 December 1864) with Charles Allston Collins, Rosa Mulholland, Henry Spicer, Amelia Edwards, & Hesba Stretton.
• Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions in the Extra Christmas Number (12 December 1865). The most famous story in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions is one of Dicken's own contributions to it, The Trial for Murder (aka To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt).
• Mugby Junction in the Extra Christmas Number (12 December 1866) which includes a masterpiece of short fiction, The Signalman (aka No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman).
• No Thoroughfare in the Extra Christmas Number (12 December 1867) with Wilkie Collins.