A collection of three ghost stories by Charles Dickens, originally published in his Christmas Stories. These tales of the supernatural are told with Dickens's characteristic attention to character and mood. They are worth listening to for their suspenseful and eerie atmospheres.
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Transcribed from the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition of “Christmas Stories” by David Price, email [email protected] THREE GHOST STORIES by Charles Dickens CONTENTS The Haunted House 121 The Trial For Murder 303 The Signal-Man 312 THE HAUNTED HOUSE. IN TWO CHAPTERS. [121] [1859.] THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSE. Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted
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