The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Charles Dickens-Volume 1

A Victorian master of tales from beyond the veil The works of Charles Dickens are justifiably famous and timeless classics. His most famous ghostly tale, 'A Christmas Carol' has become THE Christmas ghost story and has been filmed and dramatised for the stage and radio on numerous occasions. It is also well known that Dickens had a particular palate for the fiction of the strange, other worldly and bizarre, indeed there have been collections of his strange and weird tales published in the past. This special Leonaur collection is different containing, perhaps, an unprecedented 35 novellas, novelettes and short stories within two coordinating volumes available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jackets. Leonaur hard covers are fully cloth bound, with head and tail bands and feature gold foil lettered spines-a credit to any bookcase. Volume one contains the evergreen 'A Christmas Carol, ' the novella 'A House to Let' and nineteen short stories including 'Well-Authenticated Rappings, ' 'Lying Awake, ' 'The Queer Chair, ' 'The Black Veil, ' 'The Goodwood Ghost' and the renowned 'The Signalman'-among many others. This may be the essential Dickens Ghost Story collection and will be a joy to his many enthusiastic rea