Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghost Stories Author:Charles Dickens, Peter Haining (Editor) Ten Chilling Classics In The Spirit Of Christmas ... Selected And Introduced By Peter Haining — Plum Puddings And Phantoms, Goose And Graves, Verdant Holly And Spectres In The Snow ... — Here, for the first time in one book, are the Christmas ghost stories of master Charles Dickens, including: — The Goblin Who Stole A Sexton - Christmas ch... more »eer is gall and wormwood to Gabriel Grub the sexton, until a company of churchyard goblins carry him to their cavern. There they show him the good and evil of the world.
The Haunted Man - Haunted by a malevolent spirit's offer to cancel remembrance of sorrow, wrong, and trouble, Mr. Redlaw, the learned chemist, finds oblivion a deadly Yuletide gift.
The Signal Man - As the wind makes a wild harp of the telegraph wires, a ghostly figure in a railway tunnel presages horrifying doom to the signalman at his solitary post.
And, Of Course, The Most Beloved Dickens Ghost Story Of All ... A Christmas Carol.
A throng of unforgettable Dickensian characters celebrates the season. But be careful as you read, for who knows what else may emerge from the Beyond, as the firelight flickers across the pages?
"My own mind is perfectly unprejudiced and impressible on the subject of ghosts-I do not in the least pretend that such things cannot be." -Charles Dickens, 1863« less