Ghosts & Murder (Live Stream): TODAY 31st October 7.30pm (GMT) 🎃🔥📚🎩👻🚂

Ghosts & Murder (Live Stream): TODAY 31st October 7.30pm (GMT) 🎃🔥📚🎩👻🚂

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

It's Halloween .... and wherever you are in the world you can  watch Dominic's Live Stream of Ghosts and Murder today at 7.30pm (GMT) from inside the Charles Dickens Museum in London.

The film will be followed by an online Q&A with Dominic and Claire Wood - where you can ask them questions in real time!

BOOK HERE: https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/ghosts-murder

The film is three dramatic readings of Dickens' 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… 


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