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Three Ghost Stories

by Charles Dickens

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction
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"Three Ghost Stories" by Charles Dickens is a collection of ghost stories published in 1866. The collection includes "The Trial for Murder," where a murdered victim's ghost haunts a jury foreman to ensure justice; "The Haunted House"; and "The Signal-Man." These supernatural tales explore themes of ambiguity, terror through obscurity, and critique of Victorian society. Dickens masterfully creates uncertainty about whether the paranormal events are real or imagined, leaving readers to question the reliability of his narrators and the nature of the spectral encounters they describe. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and project-gutenberg matched “ghost” and “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the title, “ghost” in the description, “haunted” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “ghost”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “ghost”· in title
    • “ghost”· in description
    • “haunted”· in description
    • “ghost”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 93 editions; 2 cataloged here.

Open Library record

2008Classic Books Library; The Editorium, LLCEnglish
  • 9781600968679
  • 1600968678
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1998-04-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 93 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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openlibrary-work:OL26643330W
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