Duncan Falconer is a former SBS operative turned thriller writer. Classics
Synopsis
Selected and introduced by Peter Haining
The great Charles Dickens was the man who initiated the now famous tradition of writing and publishing ghost stories for Christmas. The magic of his seasonal tales remains undiminished through the years, and at last are now brought together in the first collection to include all the ghost stories he wrote for Christmas issues of his magazines 'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'. Selected and introduced by Peter Haining, here lies the opportunity to delve into the grim novella of 'The Haunted Man' and 'The Ghost's Bargain', witness the mysterious events in 'The Haunted House' and experience the chilling drama of 'The Signal Man' in one volume. Also included, of course, is Dickens' most famous ghost story of all, 'A Christmas Carol', a story which began to form in his mind while visiting a home for destitute children in Manchester. Utilising other interesting and often little-known facts about each story, Peter Haining also argues that it was Dickens who inextricably linked Christmas with the supernatural, together with perpetrating the idea of a 'White Christmas'.
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