Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world”s best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.
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Charles Dickens: The Signalman
A gentleman discovers the black mouth of a railway tunnel. To his amazement, deep in the gorge before the tunnel, he sees an ancient signal-man, who invites him down to a lonely shack. It’s there tha …
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A.M. Burrage: One Who Saw
A sensitive writer flees the clatter of London for a sleepy French city. After settling in at quiet hotel, he spies a ghostly, solitary young woman weeping in a walled garden, her features hidden fro …
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Marjorie Bowen: The Crown Derby Plate
An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete a particular set, the collector pays a visit to the woman’s ramshackle house, where she makes a ter …
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M.R. James: The Diary of Mr. Poynter
While engrossed in an ancient account of the sinister death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog — oblivious of the true nature of the creature crouching …
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Edith Wharton: Afterward
A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious …
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E. F. Benson: How Fear Departed the Long Gallery
Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth. In How Fear Departed …
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W. W. Jacobs: The Toll House
The Toll-House has a long and terrible history as a place of death. But Jack Barnes doesn’t believe in spirits. His travelling companions, Messrs. Meagle, Lester, and White, wager that he might be co …
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Algernon Blackwood: The Empty House
Aunt Julia, an elderly spinster with a mania for psychical research, has the keys to the haunted house on the square. She invites her nephew to accompany her on a midnight investigation into what rea …
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H.R. Wakefield: The Red Lodge
Reading a ghost story on Christmas eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. The Red Lodge is a magnificent Queen Anne house, the ideal ren …
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Walter De La Mare: The Green Room
Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. Behind the run-down bookstore is a private room for favoured c …
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Frank Cowper: Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk
Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunte …
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Joshua Glenn & Mark Kingwell: The Idler’s Glossary
’Dawdler.’ ’Layabout.’ ’Shit-heel.’ ’Loser.’ For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work hav …
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Zachariah Wells: Track & Trace
The poems in Zachariah Wells’s second collection range from childhood to dimly foreseen events in the future; they idle on all three of Canada’s coasts, travel the open road, take walks in the city a …
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Anton Chekhov: About Love
Written in France toward the end of his career, these stories are Chekhov’s only attempt at the linked collection. ’A Man in a Shell’ is a grotesque Gogolian comedy; ’Gooseberries’ a narrator’s impas …
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Derek McCormack: Christmas Days
What do the doors of Advent calendars conceal? Chocolates, sometimes, or toys. Sometimes there are illustrations of chocolates and toys. And holly. And snow. Things that make Christmas Christmas.Dere …
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Lemony Snicket: When Did You See Her Last?
The suspiciously successful second volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling series In the fading town of Stain’d-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his …
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Lemony Snicket: Shouldn’t You Be In School?
Is Lemony Snicket a detective or a smoke detector?Do you smell smoke? Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery …
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Chris: Hello, It’s Me
In Hello, Its Me, pop culture historian Chris Epting celebrates the cultural touchstones of the past 40 yearsthe music, movies, television, hobbies, and fads that have defined recent generations. Whe …
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Lemony Snicket: When Did You See Her Last?
Before he wrote ’A Series of Unfortunate Events’, before the Baudelaires became orphans, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket asked all the wrong questions. Four to be exact. This is …
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Lemony Snicket: When Did You See Her Last?
Before he wrote ’A Series of Unfortunate Events’, before the Baudelaires became orphans, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket asked all the wrong questions. Four to be exact. This is …
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Seth: The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
The companion graphic novel to Wimbledon Green Whenever you’re in Dominion, on Milverton Street you will stumble across an arresting array of handsome old buildings. The one with the pink stone façad …
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Seth: Wimbledon Green
From the critically acclaimed cartoonist of Clyde Fans and It’s A Good Life comes a humorous graphic novel on the obsession of comic-book collecting Taking a break from the serialization of his saga …
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Seth: It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken
In his first graphic novel, It’s a Good Life, if You Don’t Weaken–one of the best-selling D+Q titles ever–Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While …
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Swapan Seth: This is All I Have to Say
This is a small book of life’s big and not-so-big lessons. Written from the heart, these nuggets of personal insights will resonate with just about anyone who has experienced and questioned universal …
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Seth: Clyde Fans
The first graphic novel ever nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize! Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth’s magnus opus Clyde Fans, two decades in the making, appeared on twenty best of 2019 lists, …
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Seth: George Sprott
How to encapsulate a life, in all its messiness, epiphanies, misunderstandings, disappointments, and joys? With George Sprott 1894-1975, Seth offers one tragicomic answer. Page by page, we learn abou …
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Lemony Snicket: Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?
Train travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale!On all other nights, the train departs from Stain’d Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this nig …
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Peter Byun & Seth Cervantes: CALL Theory Applications for Online TESOL Education
With the increased necessity of using online teaching to ensure students continue to learn, it is imperative that language teachers implement computer-assisted language learning (CALL) techniques int …
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Joshua Glenn & Mark Kingwell: Adventurer’s Glossary
Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when advent …
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Joshua Glenn & Mark Kingwell: Adventurer’s Glossary
Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when advent …
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Edith Wharton: Mr Jones
When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she’ll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn’t reckoned on …
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Margaret Oliphant: Open Door
A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on Brentwood, a mansion in Scotland that shares grounds with the ruins of an older house …
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Arthur Conan Doyle: Captain of the Pole-Star
A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.When the Pole-Star is trapped in Arctic ice, its voyage comes to a halt and the lives of the crew are in danger. Superstition soon take …
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Bernard Capes: Eddy on the Floor
A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.A man is unexpectedly appointed as doctor at the local prison. But when a terrified inmate begs to be moved, the young doctor begins to …
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