Dickens: Ghost Stories (Chiltern Classic) [9781914602795]

Overview

Bringing together all Charles Dickens' ghost stories twenty in all including several longer tales. Here are chilling histories of coincidence, insanity and revenge.

.Dickens began the tradition of the ghost story at Christmas; and many of his tales in this genre are presented here, including the brilliant novella The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, which deserves to be as well-known as A Christmas Carol While all his supernatural tales aim to send a shiver down the spine, they are not without the usual traits of Dickens' flamboyant style: his subtle wit, biting irony, humorous incidents and moral observations. It is a mixture that makes these stories fascinating and entertaining as well as unsettling.

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