Charles Dickens' ghost story "To Be Read at Dusk" was first published in 1852 in Heath's Keepsake. Though it seldom appears in recent Dickens scholarship, the story is unique for its self-reflexivity, a quality not often as apparent in Dickens' works.

To Be Read at Dusk is a short, traditional ghost story by Charles Dickens.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812–9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.