One of her favorite (and most gruesome) yarns was “Captain Murderer,” which she fiendishly accompanied “by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan.” Of her nightmarish narrations, Dickens would later write: Dickens vividly recalled the terrifying bedtime tales that his nanny, “Miss Mercy,” inflicted on his impressionable mind. Yet that retraining power took time to develop and was certainly absent in Dickens’ childhood – the memories of which, he claimed, were “responsible for most of the dark corners” of his mind. And such was Dickens’ obsession with the supernatural, Forster was convinced that he would have “fallen into the follies of spiritualism,” had it not been for “the strong retraining power of his common sense.” “He had something of a hankering” after ghosts, remembered his friend and biographer John Forster.

But few know of the personal hauntings that Dickens himself experienced, or how the supernatural influenced his most memorable works. Year after year, popular books and TV adaptations witness his recurrent visitations and remind us of his powerful hold on our minds – relentlessly going strong since his death in 1870. If any author has haunted the houses of our imagination, then Charles Dickens is the literary spirit par excellence. Urn:oclc:9356735 Scandate 20110312075508 Scanner .“Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves.” – Charles Dickens OL14869794W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.26 Pages 358 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0671497529 Urn:lcp:completeghostst00dick:epub:87ca2082-1e9f-4b4a-9a71-f5dbf70bebe3 Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier completeghostst00dick Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5v708k46 Isbn 0531098850ĩ780531098851 Lccn 82013481 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:23:54 Boxid IA121612 Boxid_2 CH129711 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Curatenote shipped Donor

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