Complete ghost stories
(2009)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/DICKENS,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
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Details

PUBLISHED
Ware, Hertfordshire Wordsworth Editions, [2009]
©2009
DESCRIPTION

329 pages ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781853267345 (pbk), 1853267341 (pbk), 9781853267345
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

HORROR & GHOST STORIES. Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits. His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated A Christmas Carol, the full range of his gothic talents can be seen. Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writeof revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity