Complete Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1853267341
ISBN 13
9781853267345
Category
Fiction
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
336
Description
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 writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity. - from Amzon
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1
