In fact, Charles Dickens grew up with ghost stories and he told them everywhere. I have endeavored, in this Ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea my readers… may it haunt their houses pleasantly.Ĭhristmas Carol is not Dickens’s only eerie tale. Dickens told us this fact in his little preface: We think of A Christmas Carol as the preeminent story of the holidays, but at heart, it’s a ghost story. These Hindu children didn’t celebrate Christmas, yet they knew the story well – it was “their favorite ghost story.”
One evening, after a circus performance, he was surprised to see children entranced by a televised version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
In John Irving’s book of personal essays, Saving Piggy Sneed, he describes living with the Great Royal Circus in northwest India. This box will make a handsome gift for those who appreciate the macabre, the unearthly and the plain scary, and this limited edition offers a considerable saving over the purchase of the four books individually.The holiday season sees a million variations on Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol, yet this marvelous supernatural tale all too often overshadows the ghostly echoes that permeate Dickens’s entire oeuvre. Benson, John Buchan and Sir Walter Scott. It includes Charles Dicken's famous tales of the supernatural, as well as stories from other great literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, W.B. James and those of the wilder and more exotic Celtic imaginations of such writers as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker - and they are brought together in this handsome boxed set. This is another paragraph Book Description: The world's greatest ghost stories emanate from the British Isles - the superb, donnish tales of M.R. Boxset with four books.Small sizes red hardbacks(gilt lettering to the spine) with illustrated Dj covers in a illustrated slipcase, both in mint condition.Illustrated with b/w drawings.The boxset is un-clipped.Heavy boxset. Mint condition.Collector's Library,2010.First Collector's Library edition of this boxset.
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