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A Dickens of a fright night
The Journal
|December 18, 2025
CLASSIC CHILLS: Travel back to Victorian times
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Here to make your flesh creep for the festive countdown, seven of Dickens's spookiest stories, narrated with relish by Sir David Suchet.
The Poirot star gets the ball rolling with A Christmas Carol two-parter, presenting the 1843 classic as the author loved to tell it - Dickens abridged this snappy version for his moneymaking book tours of Britain, Ireland and America, which turned him into a literary rock star. Imagine Beatlemania, but with top hats, petticoats and smelling salts.
This story is from the December 18, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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