This Halloween Dominic is taking part in a Live Stream + Q&A of Ghosts and Murder from inside the Charles Dickens Museum in London.You can watch it online - wherever you are in the world right here: https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/ghosts-murderDominic will perform three dramatic readings of Sikes and Nancy, The Signalman and Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Hand …Here is a little background to each of the three stories:Sikes and Nancy was a reading that Dickens himself was at first afraid to perform. Fear and betrayal end in tragedy, as Nancy is followed one night over London Bridge and is wrongly accused of betraying Sikes’ gang. Dickens’ brutal and unflinching adaptation of the murder scene in Oliver Twist caused shockwaves among his audiences and it’s horror and humanity resonates as powerfully today as it did in 1870…The Dead Hand (by Wilkie Collins) follows a young traveller seeking shelter on a rainy night. Arriving at an inn, young Arthur Holliday learns the horrifying truth of what lurks there. This is one of Wilkie Collins’ rarer ghost stories, packed with masterful suspense and humour…The Signalman is haunted by a strange figure standing by the mouth of a tunnel. Each time it appears, a terrible tragedy occurs on the line. Written only a year after Dickens himself survived the Staplehurst Rail Crash, The Signal-Man finds the author grappling with his trauma: his conflicted feelings of fear and wonder at the new railways, and a desperate yearning to know in advance where danger lies… Support the show