num_pages: 101
description: In this story Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory. On seeing the professor turn into a man devoid of emotions the reader realizes how empty one becomes without a past.
language: None
title: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
publisher: Quiet Vision Pub