Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of spirits His natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, ожъяс and in the twelve stories presented here, which include his celebrated "A Christmas Carol", the full range of his gothic talents can be seen Chilling as some of these stories are, Dickens has managed to inject characteristically grotesque comedy as he writes of revenge, insanity, pre-cognition and dream visions, he indulges also in some debunking of contemporary credulity Издание на английском языке Содержание The Queer Chair c 3-15 A Madman's Manuscript c 16-22 The Goblins who Stole a Sexton c 23-32 The Ghosts of the Mail c 33-48 The Baron of Grogzwig c 49-57 A Christmas Carol c 58-123 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain c 124-200 To be Read at Dusk c 201-211 The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber c 212-226 The Haunted House c 227-251 The Trial for Murder c 252-261 The Signalman c 262-273 Автор Чарльз Диккенс Charles Dickens Один из самых известных английских романистов XIX века, виднейший писатель викторианской эпохи Чарльз Джон Гаффам Диккенс родился 7 февраля 1812 года в Лэндпорте, близ Портсмута в семье служащего Военно-морского казначейства Джона Диккенса и его жены.  Кольцо сСерия: Wordsworth Classics.