All posts tagged "Charles DIckens"

BARRY McCANN takes a look at the traditional English Christmas Ghost Story

HOWARD JACKSON says the Betsey Trotwood Pub in Clerkenwell is a perfect fit for the launch of two new vampire books

A new sculpture was officially unveiled yesterday at the corner of Union Street and Blackfriars Road, on the last day of the Charles Dickens bicentenary. As a 12 year old boy, Dickens used to walk past a statue of a dog and pot over a shop as he went to work (yes,...

Wanna see a silent version of Christmas Carol made by the same people who made the first Frankenstein film?

Lots of versions of A Christmas Carol, but have you seen the first sound version - Scrooge (1935)?

Full movie of Scrooge (1951), starring Alastair Sim as the mean old Mr Scrooge.

PAUL JASON ponders the Charles Dickens ghostly classic short story, The Signalman

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been sugar-coated for many years. A new Irish film strips the yuletide classic bare.

Charles Dickens could never have imagined how many adaptations A Christmas Carol would have spawned when he released the supernatural Yuletide novella on this day in 1843.

A new exhibition at the British Library explores Charles Dickens’ fascination with the supernatural and how it permeated throughout his life’s work.