A Ghost Story of Christmas
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Your story will appear here as you write it…
Written in Dickens’ Christmas Parlour, Victorian Britain, the Mini Museum
Dickens’ Christmas Parlour
"Christmas was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
A parlour on Christmas Eve, waiting to be brought to life. Open each part of a Victorian Christmas: press it in the room, or choose it here.
Write your own Christmas ghost story
Telling ghost stories round the fire was part of a Victorian Christmas, and Charles Dickens wrote some of the most famous. Now it is your turn to tell one.
In “A Christmas Tree”, written for Household Words in December 1850, Dickens described “telling Winter Stories—Ghost Stories, or more shame for us—round the Christmas fire”. Source: Dickens Journals Online, Household Words, vol. II, p. 293
1. Plan your story
2. Begin with an opening
3. Write your story
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Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 as “A Christmas Carol in Prose. A Ghost Story of Christmas”. Source: V&A, A Christmas Carol, 1843
Dickens did not particularly believe in ghosts, and yet he loved to hear, retell and write ghost stories. Source: Charles Dickens Museum, “Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens”