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A spooky house full of ghosts, a brother and sister as odd as the house itself, bizarre sounds and goings-on in the dark of the night. Who would want to live here?John and his sister Patty, thats who. The siblings boldly decide to live in the old manor house situated close to a railroad stop mid-way between Northern England and London. The house is dark and dreary, cold and full of rats and, of course, haunted. They invite a group of friends to come and occupy the house for three months just to see what happens. Will they all survive their time there?These brilliant slightly sinister tales by Charles Dickens and a few other authors are all very different but each has its element of strangeness.

When you think of Charles Dickens ghost stories, you may first think of A Christmas Carol and the ghosts that visit Scrooge. However, The Trail for Murder is perhaps Dickens second best-known ghost tale. Written in 1865, The Trial for Murder is a short story in which the ghost of a murder victim materialises to the foreman of the jury at his own murder trial. In this supernatural horror story, the ghost harasses the jurors and witnesses to ensure that his murderer is found guilty. While The Trial for Murder might not be considered scary by our modern-day standards it was one of the first ghost stories widely published and is a great read for fans of films like The Sixth Sense.

Fillo de familia humilde xa na súa infancia coñeceu a vida do cárcere, onde viviu algún tempo despois de cumpri-los doce anos por mor de estaren seu pai encadeado por débedas e existir no entón unha lei que lle permitia a familia vivir cos presos. O fillo Dickens traballaba nunha fabrica de betun e pasaba o fin de semana en familia, no carcere. Anos dificiles que lle ofreceron tema inagotable para a sua obra futura e nos que so o salvaba a sua pasion polos libros. Moito despois logo de facer cronicas parlamentarias e conseguir un certo recoñecemento, animouse a se adentrar na novela, publicando folletins e logo novelas por entregas, case todas cun certo ton autobiografico, novelas que se habian facer inesquecibles como As aventuras de Oliver Twist (1838), David Copperfield (1849) ou Tempos dificiles (1854), so por citar algunhas. Escritas de xeito rapido e cun realismo cheo de calor e tenrura co que Dickens nos amosa o seu profundo coñecemento da vida dos debiles e dos desherdados; en clave de humor que soubo conmover a toda unha xeracion e que fai que ainda hoxe siga sendo un dos novelistas que gozan do mais amplo favor dos lectores.

Mientras Dickens estuvo en Italia, viajando, conociendo y escribiendo, se fueron gestando las famosas narraciones de Navidad. Dickens disfrutaba de la Navidad, de aquellas tres acciones que Chesterton denomina «esa trinidad compuesta de comer, beber y rezar». Estas obras desarrollan reflexiones alrededor de la avaricia y de la caridad dentro de las paredes que sirven de refugio al frio invierno. Seguramente los lectores hayan tenido la oportunidad de ver las versiones televisadas de Los cuentos de Navidad. El avaro Scrooge, transforma nuestros espíritus y nos hace sentir la Navidad. Lo más importante de estos cuentos no es el vuelco de la soberbia y avaricia de este personaje, sino la relación y la atmósfera que lo rodea.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Pickwick Papers- Oliver Twist- Nicholas Nickleby- The Old Curiosity Shop .- Barnaby Rudge- Martin Chuzzlewit- Dombey and Son- David Copperfield- Bleak House- Hard Times- Little Dorrit- A Tale of Two Cities- Great Expectations- Our Mutual Friend- The Mystery of Edwin Drood

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- A Christmas Carol- The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth - The Battle of Life- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Christmas Stories:- A Christmas Tree - What Christmas is as we Grow Older- The Poor Relation's Story - The Child's Story- The Schoolboy's Story- Nobody's Story - The Seven Poor Travellers - The Holly-Tree - Wreck of the Golden Mary- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Going into Society- A Message From the Sea- Tom Tiddler's Ground - Somebody's Luggage - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy - Doctor Marigold - Mugby Junction - No Thoroughfare

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is one of Dickens's best-loved Christmas stories. This volume also contains many other tales of the season, a genre for which Dickens was revered by the Victorian reading