Category: Short stories

  • ‘The Signalman’ reappears

    On August 5, Londoners will be able to see a long-lost 1965 TV version of Dickens's "The…

  • Doings of the Dickens descendants

    Mark Dickens will give a Zoom presentation on "Charles Dickens — A Family Perspective" on Wednesday,…

  • A very Dickens Halloween

    On Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern, actor Dominic Gerard will perform three spooky Dickensian readings online,…

  • The adaptation road less traveled

    Screen Rant suggests adapting some of Charles Dickens's short stories for film and/or television. I particularly…

  • An honor for ‘The Signal-Man’

    When The Sunday Times created their list of the 100 best short stories, Dickens's "The Signal-Man" was one…

  • Christmas gifts for Dickens fans

    Here are a few new items that might make good gifts for a Dickens fan you…

  • A Dickensian Halloween

    In honor of the day, Digital Journal discusses some of Dickens's ghost stories, and reports on actor…

  • From the book pile, part 1

    The Haunted House, by Charles Dickens, et al. (Hesperus Press Limited, 2015). I recently picked up a…

  • Interactive Dickens

    The new iDickens app — part of the iClassics collection — lets you experience "enhanced books"…

  • More Christmasy than the Carol?

    In a warm and winsome (and spoilery) article at The Smart Set, Colin Fleming argues that…