Note: There are other authors with the same name: Charles Dickens (I)

Author: Charles Dickens Author Record # 1572 Legal Name: Dickens, Charles John Huffam Birthplace: Landport, Hampshire, England, UK Birthdate: 7 February 1812 Deathdate: 9 June 1870 Language: English Webpages: Books and Writers, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, IMDB, Library of Congress, SFE, Wikipedia-EN Used These Alternate Names: Charles Allston Collins (in error), Ch-r-s D-c-k-n-s, C. Dickens, Carlo Dickens, チャールズ・ディケンズ?Chāruzu Dikenzu Author Tags: Librivox (7), fantasy (6), Christmas (4), england (2), 19th century (2), supernatural (2), first person point of view (2), ghosts (2), goblins (1), con man (1), rich widow (1), chair (1), inn (1), epistolary (1), dark fantasy (1), horror, ghost story (1), precognition (1), railway (1), Britain (1), railway accident (1) and 24 additional tags. View all tags for Charles Dickens

• Christmas Books
  • A Christmas Carol (1843) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Chant de Noël: En prose [French] (unknown)
    • Variant: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (1843)
    • Variant: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (1843)
    • Translation: Il canto di Natale [Italian] (1958) [as by Carlo Dickens]
    • Translation: Un conte de Noël [French] (1964)
    • Translation: Een kerstlied in proza [Dutch] (1967)
    • Translation: Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa [German] (1983)
    • Variant: A Christmas Carol in Prose (1992)
    • Translation: Storia di Natale: aspettando il miracolo della solidarietà fra gli uomini [Italian] (1994)
    • Translation: Canto di Natale [Italian] (1994)
    • Variant: A Christmas Carol (2001) [as by Charles Dickens and Stephen Krensky]
    • Translation: O Cântico de Natal [Portuguese] (2001)
    • Variant: A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (2004)
    • Translation: Canto di Natale in prosa ovvero Storia di fantasmi per Natale in prosa [Italian] (2005)
    • Translation: Canto di Natale in prosa: ovvero Storia di fantasmi per Natale [Italian] (2005)
    • Variant: A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (2006)
    • Translation: Racconto di Natale [Italian] (2007)
    • Translation: A Christmas Carol: In prosa, ossia, una storia di spettri sul Natale [Italian] (2009)
    • Translation: Un canto di Natale [Italian] (2009)
    • Translation: Weihnachtslied: Eine Gespenstergeschichte [German] (2011)
    • Translation: Canción de Navidad. En prosa. Cuento navideño des espectros [Spanish] (2012)
    • Variant: A Christmas Carol (original manuscript edition) (2016)
    • Translation: Um conto de natal [Portuguese] (2019)
  • The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in (1844) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant: The Chimes: A Goblin Story (1852)
    • Variant: The Chimes (1868)
    • Translation: Les carillons [French] (1964)
  • The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (1845) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant: The Cricket on the Hearth (1868)
    • Translation: Le grillon du foyer [French] (1933)
    • Translation: Le grillon du foyer [French] (1964)
    • Translation: Il grillo del focolare: Una favola domestica [Italian] (2009)
  • The Battle of Life (1846)
  • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant: The Haunted Man (1852)
    • Translation:
      Omul haituit și târgul strigoiului^?Omul haituit si targul strigoiului
      [Romanian] (1981)
    • Translation: Der Heimgesuchte [German] (1981)
    • Translation: L'uomo pesseduto e il patto con il fantasma [Italian] (2020)
  • Christmas Books (1852) [C] also appeared as:
    • Variant: Christmas Stories (1868)
    • Variant: The Christmas Books (2007)
  • A Christmas Carol (1915) [SF] with Lucile Blackburn Berry
  • The Fezziwigs' Christmas Party (1929) [SF]
  • A Christmas Carol (1982) [SF] with Joan Collins
  • A Christmas Carol (excerpt) (2005) [SF]
  • A Christmas Carol (2009) [SF] with James Ponti only appeared as:
    • Translation: A Christmas Carol [Italian] (2009)
  • A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (2009) [SF] with Michael Wilson
  • A Christmas Carol: Chapter IV (2017) [SF]

• The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume the First (of 2) (1837)
  • Variant: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume the Second (of 2) (1837)
• La verità sul caso D. [Italian] (1989) with Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini also appeared as:
  • Translation: The D. Case: The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood [English] (1992)
  • Translation: The D. Case or the Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood [English] (1993)
• A Zombie Christmas Carol (2011) with Michael G. Thomas
• Grave Expectations (2011) with Sherri Browning Erwin
• A Christmas Carol II: Contagion (2011) with Bruno Vincent
• Oliver Twisted, or The Witch Boy's Progress (2012) with J. D. Sharpe

• The Lamplighter's Story; Hunted Down; The Detective Police; and Other Nouvellettes (1861)
• Christmas Books, and Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People (1867)
• The Uncommercial Traveller and Additional Christmas Stories (1868)
• A Christmas Carol, to Which Are Added The Lamplighter's Story and Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1885)
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices; No Thoroughfare; The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1890) with Wilkie Collins
• Charles Dicken's Stories from the Christmas Numbers of "Household Words" and "All the Year Round," 1852-1867 (1896) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Christmas Stories from "Household Words" & "All the Year Round" (1910)
• Christmas Tales (1932)
• Les meilleurs contes de Noël [French] (1964)
• The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens (1978)
• Der Heimgesuchte [German] (1981)
• The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (1982) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1 (1984)
  • Variant: The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens, Vol. 2 (1985)
• The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories (1984) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Signalman and Other Ghost Stories (1988)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (1984)
• The Haunted Man; and, The Haunted House (1985)
• Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens: Volume 1 (1991)
• Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens: Volume 2 (1992)
• Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghost Stories (1992)
• Three Ghost Stories (1998)
• The Signalman (1998)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Haunting Tales (1998)
• Ghost Stories (2001)
• The Signalman and The Ghost at the Trial (2005)
• A Christmas Carol (2005)
• Ghost Stories (2009)
• A Christmas Carol (2009)
• Christmas Ghost Stories (2009)
• Christmas Books, Ghost Stories and Other Tales (2010)
• Para leer al anochecer. Historias de fantasmas [Spanish] (2011)
• Christmas Stories (2012)
• Ghost Stories (2012)
• A Christmas Carol (2013)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures (2013)
• Christmas Stories (2015)
• To Be Read at Dusk (2016)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (2017)
• A Christmas Carol & Other Stories (2018)
• Supernatural Short Stories (2020)
• Storie di goblin e fantasmi [Italian] (2020)
• The Chimes: and Other Supernatural Stories (2022)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Tales (2025)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories [forthcoming: Oct 20 2026]
• Best Ghost Stories (unknown)
• Christmas Stories (unknown)
• Christmas Stories (unknown)
• The Christmas Books (unknown)

• A Boxful of Ghosts (2010) [O] with Marcus Clapham and David Stuart Davies and M. R. James
• Collector's Library Christmas Box (2010) [O] with L. Frank Baum and Lewis Carroll

• The Dead Hand and The Bride's Chamber: The Interpolated Tales from The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (2009) with Wilkie Collins
• Το Νεκρό Χέρι και η Νυφική Κάμαρα^?To Nekro Cheri kai i Nyfiki Kamara
  [Greek] (2016) with Wilkie Collins
• The Ghost of Christmas Always (2021) with Kevin J. Anderson

• A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (1843) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Contes de Noël [French] (unknown)
  • Variant: A Christmas Carol (1915)
  • Variant: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (1922)
  • Translation: Il canto di Natale [Italian] (1958) [as by Carlo Dickens]
  • Translation: Storia di Natale: aspettando il miracolo della solidarietà fra gli uomini [Italian] (1994)
  • Translation: Canto di Natale [Italian] (1994)
  • Variant: A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (2004)
  • Translation: A Christmas Carol: In prosa, ossia, una storia di spettri sul Natale [Italian] (2009)
  • Translation: Un canto di Natale [Italian] (2009)
  • Variant: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (2009)
  • Translation: Racconto di Natale [Italian] (2009)
  • Translation: Canto di Natale [Italian] (2010)
  • Translation: Weihnachtslied: Eine Gespenstergeschichte [German] (2011)
  • Variant: A Christmas Carol: A Collector's Edition (2012)
  • Translation: Canción de Navidad [Spanish] (2012)
  • Variant: Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol (2015)
  • Translation: Um conto de natal [Portuguese] (2019)
• The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In (1844)
• The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (1845) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Le grillon du foyer [French] (1933)
  • Translation: Il grillo del focolare: Una favola domestica [Italian] (2009)
  • Variant: The Cricket on the Hearth (2013)
• The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
• To Be Read at Dusk (1852)
• A Christmas Carol: An Original Dramatization of Dickens' Charming Story (1915) with Lucile Blackburn Berry
• A Christmas Carol (1982) with Joan Collins
• The Magic Fish-Bone (2000) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Magic Fishbone (2007)
• A Christmas Carol (2001) with Stephen Krensky
• O Cântico de Natal [Portuguese] (2001)
• A Christmas Carol [Italian] (2009) with James Ponti
• A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (2009) with Michael Wilson
• A Christmas Carol (2010) with Pauline Francis
• The Haunted House of 1859 (2012)
• The Signalman (2015)
• A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition (2016)
• La casa infestata [Italian] (2019)
• Quattro storie [Italian] (2020)
• The Haunted House (2026)
• A Christmas Carol: Illustrated and Abridged [forthcoming: Oct 22 2026] with Chris Mould

• The Dancing Academy (1835)
• The Black Veil (1836) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Der schwarze Schleier [German] (1978)
• The Drunkard's Death (1836)
• The Old Man's Tale About the Queer Client (1836)
• The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (1836) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (1983)
  • Variant: A Good-Humoured Christmas (1984)
  • Variant: The Christmas Goblins (2012)
  • Translation: La storia dei goblin che rapirono il sacrestano [Italian] (2020)
• The True Legend of Prince Bladud (1836)
• A Madman's Manuscript (1837)
• Full Report of The Second Meeting of The Mudfog Association for The Advancement of Everything Section B - Display of Models and Mechanical Science (1837)
• Mr Pickwick on the Ice (1837)
• The Bagman's Story (1837) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Bagman's Story (1918) [as by C. Dickens]
  • Translation: Die Geschichte des Handlungsreisenden [German] (1984)
• The Ghosts of the Mail (1837) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Ghosts of the Mail: The Story of the Bagman's Uncle (unknown)
• The Lawyer and the Ghost (1837) also appeared as:
  • Translation: El letrado y el fantasma [Spanish] (2009)
• The Queer Chair (1837) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Queer Chair: The Bagman's Story (unknown)
• The Story of the Bagman's Uncle (1837) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Tale of the Bagman's Uncle (1837)
  • Variant: The Bagman's Uncle (1837)
  • Translation: Die Geschichte vom Onkel des Handlungsreisenden [German] (1987)
• Baron Koëldwethout's Apparition (1839) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Baron Koeldwethout's Apparition (1838)
  • Variant: The Baron of Grogzwig (1978)
  • Translation: Der Baron von Grogzwig [German] (1981)
• A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second (1840) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Mother's Eyes (1992)
• Christmas Ghosts (1850) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Ghosts at Christmas (1992)
  • Translation: Fantasmas de Navidad [Spanish] (2009)
• A Child's Dream of a Star (1850) also appeared as:
  • Translation: El niño que soñó con una estrella [Spanish] (2009)
• A Christmas Tree (1850) also appeared as:
  • Translation: L'arbre de Noël [French] (1853)
• The Last Words of the Old Year (1851)
• The Battle of Life (1852)
• To Be Read at Dusk (1852) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Lektüre für die Abenddämmerung^?Lektuere fuer die Abenddaemmerung
    [German] (1981)
  • Translation: Para leer al anochecer [Spanish] (2009)
• The Child's Story (1852) [also as by uncredited]
• Mark Hansel's Visitor (1855) only appeared as:
  • Translation: Una extraña entrevista [Spanish] (1963)
• Prince Bull: A Fairy Tale (1855)
• A Christmas Carol: In Four Staves (condensed) (1857)
• The Ghost Chamber (1857)
• The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber (1857) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Bride's Chamber (2009)
  • Translation: El fantasma en la habitación de la desposada [Spanish] (2009)
  • Translation:
    Νυφική Κάμαρα^?Nyfiki Kamara
    [Greek] (2016)
• The Hanged Man's Bride (1857)
• Well Authenticated Rappings (1858) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Well-Authenticated Rappings (1858)
  • Variant: The Rapping Spirits (1992)
  • Translation: Pálpitos confirmados [Spanish] (2009)
• The Ghost in Master B.'s Room (1859)
• The Haunted House (1859) also appeared as:
  • Translation: La casa encantada [Spanish] (2009)
• The Haunted House (1859) with Wilkie Collins and Mrs. Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter and George Augustus Sala and Hesba Stretton also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Haunted House (1859) [as by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens and Mrs. Gaskell and Miss A. Procter and G. Augustus Sala and Miss Hesba Stretton]
  • Variant: The Haunted House of 1859 (2012) [as by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter and George Augustus Sala and Hesba Stretton]
  • Translation: La casa infestata [Italian] (2019) [as by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter and George Augustus Sala and Hesba Stretton]
• Hunted Down (1859)
• Mr. Testator's Visitation (1860) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Mr Testator's Visitation (1983)
  • Translation: La visita del señor Testador [Spanish] (2009)
• The City of the Absent (1860)
• Captain Murderer (1860) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Captain Murderer and the Devil's Bargain (1860)
  • Translation: El capitán asesino y el pacto con el diablo [Spanish] (2009)
• The Rat That Could Speak (1860) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Devil and Mr. Chips (1860)
  • Translation: Le rat qui parlait [French] (1954)
  • Translation: Il topo che sapeva parlare [Italian] (1955)
• A Message from the Sea (1860) with Wilkie Collins
• The Portrait-Painter's Story (1861) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Portrait Painter's Story (1861)
  • Translation: La historia del retratista [Spanish] (2009)
• Four Ghost Stories (1861) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Cuatro historias de fantasmas [Spanish] (2009)
  • Translation: Quattro storie [Italian] (2020)
• To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt (1865) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Trial for Murder: To be Taken with a Grain of Salt (unknown)
  • Variant: The Trial for Murder (1903)
  • Variant: The Trial for Murder (1928) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
  • Variant: The Thirteenth Juryman (1931)
  • Variant: The Trial for Murder (1946) [as by Charles A. Collins and Charles Dickens]
  • Translation: Enjuiciamiento por asesinato (Juicio por asesinato) [Spanish] (1947) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
  • Variant: The Thirteenth Man (1949)
  • Translation: El juicio por asesinato [Spanish] (1958) [as by Charles Allston Collins (in error)]
  • Translation: Un procès criminel [French] (1958)
  • Variant: The Trial for Murder (1961) [as by Charles Collins and Charles Dickens]
  • Translation:
    Der Mordprozeß^?Der Mordprozess
    [German] (1971) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
  • Translation: Povestea unei crime [Romanian] (1975) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
  • Translation: Cum Grano Salis [Italian] (1988) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
  • Variant: To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt (2004) [as by C. Dickens]
  • Translation: Le procès pour meurtre [French] (2006)
  • Translation: El juicio por asesinato [Spanish] (2009)
  • Translation: La leggere con un pizzico di buon senso [Italian] (2020)
• The Signalman (1866) also appeared as:
  • Variant: No 1 Branch Line. The Signalman (1866)
  • Variant: No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman (1868)
  • Variant: The Signal-Man (1875)
  • Variant: The Signal Man (1902)
  • Variant: No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man (1909)
  • Variant: No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman (1927)
  • Variant: No. I Branch Line, the Signal-Man (1931)
  • Translation:
    El señalero^?El senalero
    [Spanish] (1934)
  • Translation: Le signaleur [French] (1958)
  • Translation:
    Der Bahnwärter^?Der Bahnwaerter
    [German] (1961)
  • Translation: 信号手 [Japanese] (1961) [as by
    チャールズ・ディケンズ^?Chāruzu Dikenzu
    ]
  • Translation: De seinhuiswachter [Dutch] (1964)
  • Translation: Le signaleur [French] (1970)
  • Translation: Omul de la semnal [Romanian] (1975)
  • Translation: Banvakten [Swedish] (1978)
  • Translation: Le spectre du cheminot [French] (1979)
  • Translation:
    Der Bahnwärter^?Der Bahnwaerter
    [German] (1981)
  • Translation: De seinhuiswachter [Dutch] (1982)
  • Translation:
    Der Bahnwärter^?Der Bahnwaerter
    [German] (1984)
  • Translation: Il casellante [Italian] (1988)
  • Translation: O sinaleiro [Portuguese] (2004)
  • Translation: Embranchement n° 1, le signaleur [French] (2006)
  • Variant: No. 1 Branch Line, The Signal-Man (2007)
  • Translation: Le signaleur [French] (2007)
  • Translation: El guardavías [Spanish] (2009)
  • Variant: No. 1 Branch Line—The Signal-man (2011)
  • Variant: No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal Man (2016)
  • Translation: Il segnalatore [Italian] (2019)
• The Magic Fishbone (1868) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Magic Fish-Bone (2000)
  • Translation: A espinha de peixe mágica [Portuguese] (2007)
• No Thoroughfare (1890) with Wilkie Collins
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1890) with Wilkie Collins [also as by Charles Dickens]
• The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1890) with Wilkie Collins [also as by Charles Dickens]
  • Serializations:
  • The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (Part 1 of 3) (1925) [as by Charles Dickens]
  • The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (Part 2 of 3) (1925) [as by Wilkie Collins]
  • The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (Part 3 of 3) (1925) [as by Charles Dickens]
• Christmas Eve at Wardle's (1892)
• Dr. Manette's Manuscript (1927)
• Christmas Eve at Dingley Dell (1927)
• Marley's Ghost (excerpt) (1932)
• Old Marley's Ghost (excerpt) (1938)
• Christmas Blesses Old Scrooge (1945)
• Lieutenant Doubledick's Revenge (1945)
• The Mysterious Man on the Moor (1963)
• The Magic Fishbone (1966) with Mary Nygaard Peterson
• The Sassage Machine (1967)
• The Railroad Signal-Man (1975) with Wade Denning
• Die Warnung [German] (1976)
• A Christmas Dinner (1984)
• The Holly-Tree (1988)
• The Seven Poor Travellers (1988)
• Christmas at Dingley Dell (1992)
• The Trial from Pickwick (excerpt) (1998)
• The Ghost at the Trial (2005)
• Un chant de Noël (excerpt) [French] (2006)
• A Christmas Carol (2010) with Pauline Francis
• Christmas Ghost Stories (an excerpt) (2016)
• The Christmas Goblin (2018)
• The Ghost in the Corner Room (2018)
• Four Stories (2020)
• The Convict's Return (2020)
• Un storia di spettri [Italian] (2020)
• Nurses Stories (2022)
• A Christmas Carol: Illustrated and Abridged [forthcoming: Oct 22 2026] with Chris Mould
• Mrs. Gamp (unknown)
• Sikes and Nancy (unknown)

• [Acrostic, spelling out "Maria Beadnell"] (1935)
• The Churchyard (1935)

• Preface (A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) (1843) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Avvertenza dell'autore (Storia di Natale) [Italian] (1994)
  • Translation: Prefazione (Canto di Natale) [Italian] (1994)
  • Translation: Premessa (Canto di Natale) [Italian] (2005)
  • Translation: untitled preface (Un canto di Natale) [Italian] (2009)
• Vorbemerkung (Weihnachtslied: Eine Gespenstergeschichte) [German] (1843)
• Appendix: Ghosts and Ghost-Seers (1848)
• What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older (1851) also appeared as:
  • Variant: What Christmas Is As We Grow Older (1910)
• Preface (Christmas Books) (1852)
• Nurse's Stories (1860)
• Vampyres and Ghouls (1871)
• Telling Winter Stories (unknown)

• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

• All the Year Round
  • All the Year Round - 1860 (1860)
  • All the Year Round - 1861 (1861)
  • All the Year Round - 1863 (1863)
  • All the Year Round - 1864 (1864)
  • All the Year Round - 1865 (1865)
  • All the Year Round - 1866 (1866)
  • All the Year Round - 1867 (1867)
  • All the Year Round - 1869 (1869)
  • All the Year Round - 1870 (1870)
  
  
• Household Words
  • Household Words - 1850 (1850) with Editors of Household Words
  • Household Words - 1852 (1852) with Editors of Household Words

• The Uncommercial Traveller (1860)

• Some Particulars Concerning a Lion (1837)

• Shy Neighbourhoods (1917)