Title: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
First published: July 10, 2003
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, English Christmas stories, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, English wit and humor, Ghost stories, Christmas stories, Fiction, horror, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, historische fictie, Kerstverhaal
Places: England
Time periods: 19th century