Best Ghost Stories Charles Dickens

Interest In Supernatural Phenomena Was High During The Time Of Charles Dickens. He Was OpenMinded, Willing To Accept, And Put To Test The Existence Of Spirits. A Fascinating And Lesser Known Side Of DickensS Work Is His Flair For Ghost Stories. He Showed A Fascination With Ghosts And The Macabre And Was Considered A Master Of This Wonderful Genre. DickensS Natural Inclinations Towards Drama And The Macabre Made Him A Brilliant Teller Of Ghost Tales.Best Ghost Stories Contains 14 Of DickensS Most Interesting Stories, Exhibiting The Full Range Of His Gothic Talents. The Queer Chair Is A Modern Fairy Story. The Ghost, A Chair Who Has Human Features Rather Than A Spirit Of The Dead, Could Easily Be Some Supernatural Being. A MadmanS Manuscript Is A PoeEsque Tale About Insanity Written From The PointOfView Of The Lunatic. The Narrator Is Known To Be Unbalanced, But The Reader Cannot Resist The Power Of His Madness To See What Happens Next. In The Goblin Who Stole A Sexton, Gabriel Grubb Is A MeanHearted Gravedigger Who Drinks And Works On Christmas, Instead Of Praying And Celebrating, But Becomes A Changed Man After He Is Captured By Group Of Goblins And Taken In Their Underground Cave.The Most WellKnown Is DickensS Ghostly Parable A Christmas Carol, Of The Visit To The Bitter And TightFisted Miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, By Three Ghosts, Which Started The Tradition Of The Ghost Story At Christmas. The SignalMan, The Haunted House And The Trial For Murder Are Three Of DickensS Quaint But Ghostly Spoofs.DickensS Short Stories DonT Compare With His Novels But Make Nevertheless A Highly Interesting Reading.