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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
At twilight on Christmas Eve, Gabriel Grub, sexton and gravedigger, must prepare a grave for the following morning. As he arrives at the old churchyard and is ready to tend to his work, he hears a deep voice in the dark and otherwise silent yard.
First published as Chapter XXIX of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, January 1837.
Reprinted in:
- Christmas Ghosts (1987)
- The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories, Academy Chicago 1988
- Ghosts for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1988
- The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century (1991)
- Charles Dickens’ Christmas Ghost Stories, Robert Hale 1992
- A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales, SFBC 1998
Original title: The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Ghosts
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Pickwick Papers, the (1837) [Novel]
Author: Charles Dickens
Christmas Ghosts (1987) [Anthology]
Authors: Charles Dickens
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ramsey Campbell
, Arthur Machen
, Marjorie Bowen
, Mrs. J.H. (Charlotte) Riddell
, John Kendrick Bangs
, A.N.L. Munby
, Frank R. Stockton
, F. Anstey
, Elia Wilkinson Peattie
, Elizabeth Walter
, Rosemary Timperley
, William D. O'Connor
, Andrew Caldecott
, Leonard Kip
Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century (1991) [Anthology]
Authors: Lewis Carroll
, Charles Dickens
, John Keats
, Alfred Tennyson
, Oscar Wilde
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, George MacDonald
, William Morris
, Christina Rossetti
, Richard Garnett
, Andrew Lang
, F. Anstey
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, Edward Lear
, William Gilbert
, Vernon Lee
, Nathan Drake
, Benjamin Disraeli
, John Sterling
, Dinah Maria Mulock
, Walter Besant
, Walter Herries Pollock
Best Ghost Stories (1998) [Collection]
Author: Charles Dickens
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