Supernatural Short Stories

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Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection provides an invaluable insight into the authors storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. As well as offering a further dimension to the world of his better-known masterpieces, these tales from The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton to the celebrated The Signalman illustrate Dickenss well-known love of a spooky story told around a blazing fire, the pastime of a bygone age to be rediscovered for our own delight.

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All his characters are my personal friends I am constantly comparing them with living persons, and living persons with them. -- Leo Tolstoy

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Charles Dickens (1812-70) was an English writer, generally considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters. He continues to be one of the best-known and most read of English authors, with multiple adaptations of his work frequently being produced.