An
acclaimed and prolific author, Dickens' position as one of the
'greats' of English literature is beyond dispute. There are
supernatural and macabre elements in all of the works of
Dickens.
Short Stories
(often
self-contained in novels)
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick
Club, edited by 'Boz', Chapman & Hall (London),
April 1836-Nov 1837 (20 monthly parts in 19)
Includes:
"The Bagman's Story", "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle", "The True
Legend of Prince Bladud", The Lawyer and the Ghost", "The Queer
Chair", "The Ghosts of the Mail", "A Madman's Manuscript", "The
Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton".
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas
Nickleby, Chapman & Hall (London), April 1838-October
1839 (20 monthly parts in 19)
Including:
Baron Koëldwethout's Apparition".
Master Humphrey's Clock, Chapman & Hall (London),
April 1840-Nov 1841 (by 'Boz', 88 weekly parts, illustrated by G.
Cattermole, Phiz & Daniel Maclise)
Includes two
sections which are supernatural and have been reprinted
seperately: "The Mother's Eyes", "A Confession found in a Prison
at the Time of Charles the Second".
The Haunted Man and The Ghost's
Bargain, Bradbury & Evans (London), 1848
To Be Read at Dusk, [London], 1852
Includes:
"To Be Read at Dusk".
The Uncommercial Traveller, Chapman & Hall
(London), 1861
Includes two
supernatural sections: "Nurse's Stories", which has been reprinted
as "Captain Murderer and the Devil's Bargain", and "Chambers",
which has been reprinted as "Mr Testator's Visitation".
The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles
Dickens, Michael Joseph (London), 1982. Edited by Peter
Haining.
This
colection is not actually 'Complete' because it misses Dickens'
novella 'The Chimes', and 'Four Ghost Stories' has since been
discovered by Richard Dalby to have actually been penned by Amelia
Edwards.
Includes:
Introduction, Captain Murderer and the Devil's Bargain, The Lawyer
and the Ghost, The Queer Chair, The Ghosts of the Mail, A Madman's
Manuscript, The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton, Baron
Koeldwethout's Apparition, A Christmas Carol, The Haunted Man and
the Ghost's Bargain, A Child's Dream of a Star, Christmas Ghosts,
To be Read at Dusk, The Ghost Chamber, The Haunted House, Mr
Testator's Visitation, The Trial for Murder, The Signal-man, Four
Ghost Stories, The Portrait-Painter's Story, Well-Authenticated
Rappings
Novels
A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall (London),
1843
The Chimes, Chapman & Hall, 1845
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