A ghost in the bride's room

Charles Dickens (the well-known writer) is widely famous in popular culture as a top ghost story writer, and this book includes selected ghost stories from a large collection of ghost stories written by this distinguished author. And if there is an author who haunted our imagination, it is Charles Dickens, who possesses that exceptional literary spirit, as his books continue year after year to attract increasing numbers of readers, reminding us of his strong grip that dominates our minds, and which has continued to hold sway over readers' imagination relentlessly since his death in 1870. But few readers know the personal adventures Dickens himself lived, or how supernatural elements influenced his unforgettable works. His friend and biographer John Forster recalls: "He had a certain longing for ghosts," and this was the source of Dickens's obsession with the supernatural, as Forster was convinced that he could have "fallen into the follies of spiritualism" if not for "his sound understanding of the nature of things." Dickens clearly remembered the frightening bedtime stories told to him by Miss Mercy, which affected his mind, and Dickens later wrote about this: "I suffered greatly from the atmosphere of those stories to the point that I sometimes begged her to stop telling them, because I was not strong or mature enough to hear them, but she never paid me any heed. Her name was Mercy, which means mercy in English, although she bore none of that compassionate upbringing." With the painful shocks to young Dickens's psyche, these early fears fostered his emerging imagination like few other things, and his love-hate relationship with ghost stories continued throughout adolescence. As a student, he eagerly devoured every issue of a magazine that published horror stories, where humor and fantasy intertwined, showcasing Dickens's extraordinary talents in the clearest way and offering readers an indescribable pleasure. Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Sidra Publishing and Distribution Number of pages: 142