Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)
Author: first_name: Charles
last_name: Dickens
Language: English
Year: 1848

The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), <i>The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain</i> centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemistry, whose personal life has been marred by sorrow and, he feels, by wrongs done to him in his past. He is haunted by his ghostly twin, who offers him the opportunity to forget completely all 'sorrow, wrong and trouble', claiming that this will make him happier. Redlaw wavers, but finally accepts this offer, discovering too late that there are conditi