Ghost Stories

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Charles Dickens was a master of the macabre. His stories of madness, murder and revenge, often imbued with a sympathetic moral undertone, have continued to thrill and chill readers ever since they were written. Here then are 15 tales that display the full range of Dickens’s Gothic talents. The Signalman, perhaps the most well-known, is a chilling story about a mysterious figure and its deathly omen; The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain shows the consequences for those who make deals with the dead; The Portrait-Painter’s Story follows an artist who paints a non-living person by memory; and Captain Murderer and the Devil’s Bargain, a bedtime story from Dickens’s own childhood, tells of a bloodthirsty man who kills his brides and bakes them into pies. Among others, the collection also includes A Christmas Carol, The Baron of Grogzwig from The Pickwick Papers, and The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber, a novella co-written with Wilkie Collins.

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Ghost Stories is an audiobook rendition of fifteen classic ghost stories written by Charles Dickens, showcasing his versatile talents in the realm of supernatural horror. Vividly performed by BBC Radio Drama veteran David Timson, these Gothic tales include The Signalman, The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, The Portrait-Painter’s Story, Captain Murderer and the Devil’s Bargain, A Christmas Carol, The Baron of Grogzwig from The Pickwick Papers, and The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber, a novella co-written with Wilkie Collins. Ghost Stories is a treasure for connoisseurs of the genre in general and Dickens’s classic fiction in particular, highly recommended for both personal and public library audiobook collections.

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