Charles Dickens Ghost Stories from the Pickwick Papers The Ghost in the Wardrobe A young law student moves into an old rooming house haunted by a resident ghost Tension grows between the two ...

The line is from a very unusual ghost story found in the first novel of Charles Dickens, though The Pickwick Papers is a barely-sewn-together series of stories. In one such, a renter must furnish ...

Stephen Jarvis's debut novel, Death and Mr. Pickwick, dramatizes the origin story of The Pickwick Papers, bringing alive Dickens and Seymour in rollicking scenes of early 19th century England.