The middle story was my favorite. The last story gave me chills. I thought I knew where it was going and I absolutely did not.

"The Signal-Man" left me feeling unsettled. "A Trial for Murder" was decent-ish in parts and had a dash of Dickensian melodrama which is quite satisfying if you're into it. "The Haunted House" was probably padded out for the word count. I read this in installments via Serial Reader before bed at nig

Eh...
Good and spooky enough for Victorian era, but not very scary for our era. :)

I thought a set of Victorian ghost stories might be a more interesting read than Dickens' longer novels, but I was disappointed to find they weren't. While each paragraph and sentence is well constructed and evocative, they are not strung together to make stories that hold any substance (and no, I d

Hmm. I like Dicken’s writing style so much (Don’t believe anyone who tells you he got paid by the word, it’s simply not true, and he really isn’t that wordy or hard to understand, give him a shot). However, I didn’t feel these stories were quite creepy enough for me to really enjoy them, though part

Sometimes it’s good to read some classics. Sometimes it just serves to remind the reader of changing times and tastes. This selection was inspired by a modern pastiche of a Victorian scary story from a book I’ve recently read. That one was lovely, actually. And these stories not so much. Maybe it’s