The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Charles
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dickens, Charles, PUBLISHER: Leonaur Ltd, A second helping of fiction with the chilling touch of fear from Charles Dickens The works of Charles Dickens are justifiably famous <strong>andstrong> timeless classics. His most famous ghostly tale, 'A Christmas Carol' has become THE Christmas ghost story <strong>andstrong> has been filmed <strong>andstrong> dramatised for the stage <strong>andstrong> radio on numerous occasions. It is also well known that Dickens had a particular palate for the fiction of the strange, other worldly <strong>andstrong> bizarre, indeed there have been collections of his strange <strong>andstrong> weird tales published in the past. This special Leonaur collection is different containing, perhaps, an unprecedented 35 novellas, novelettes <strong>andstrong> short stories within two coordinating volumes available in soft cover <strong>andstrong> hard cover with dust jackets. Leonaur hard covers are fully cloth bound, with head <strong>andstrong> tail b<strong>andstrong>s <strong>andstrong> feature gold foil lettered spines-a credit to any bookcase. This second volume of Dickens fiction of the bizarre <strong>andstrong> ghostly contains two novellas, 'The Haunted Man <strong>andstrong> the Ghost's Bargain' <strong>andstrong> 'The Cricket on the Hearth, ' two novelettes, 'The Haunted House' <strong>andstrong> the highly regarded, 'The Chimes' <strong>andstrong> ten shorter pieces including 'The Ghost of the Brides Chamber.' 'The Ghosts of the Mail.' 'To be read at dusk.' 'The Queer Client.' 'Trial for Murder' <strong>andstrong> more equally gripping tales that contribute to what is, perhaps, one of the most comprehensive collections of Dickens' strange fiction ever published.