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Charles Dickens THE COMPLETE SUPERNATURAL STORIES Table of Contents THE QUEER CHAIR THE GHOSTS OF THE MAIL THE TRUE LEGEND OF PRINCE BLADUD THE LAWYER AND THE GHOST THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON A MADMAN’S MANUSCRIPT THE BARON OF GROGZWIG THE MOTHER’S EYES A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE CHIMES THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN A CHILD’S DREAM OF A STAR CHRISTMAS GHOSTS TO BE READ AT DUSK THE HANGED MAN’S BRIDE WELL-AUTHENTICATED RAPPINGS THE GHOST IN MASTER B.’S ROOM CAPTAIN MURDERER AND THE DEVIL’S BARGAIN MR. TESTATOR’S VISITATION FOUR GHOST STORIES THE PORTRAIT-PAINTER’S STORY THE TRIAL FOR MURDER THE SIGNAL-MAN The Queer Chair (1837) One winter’s evening, about five o’clock, just as it began to grow dusk, a man in a gig might have been seen urging his tired horse along the road which leads across Marlborough Downs, in the direction of Bristol. I say he might have been seen, and I have no doubt he would have been, if anybody but a blind man had happened to pass that way; but the weather was so bad, and the night so cold and wet, that nothing was out but the water, and so the traveler jogged ......