Acquaintance Quote by Charles Dickens

“There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

It was the night before Christmas and all I wanted was to no longer feel haunted.

— Dominic Riccitello

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in…

— Henry James

“If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling.…

— Agatha Christie

“It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised…

— Michael Cunningham

“CHRISTMAS TREE by Charles Dickens After the publication of The Haunted Man (1848), the last of Dickens’ Christmas novellas, he marked the holidays with…

— Charles Dickens

“Yes, this was a haunted place. He had read about certain materials absorbing the sounds of their surroundings like divots in a vinyl recording,…

— Aaron Dries

“Normally Halloween was like Christmas for me. I would anticipate it for weeks, decorating myself and the house, as well as strolling around the…

— Damien Echols

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

— Eric Russell

“The house filled rapidly; cheerful talk overflowed the rooms and children were bobbing in and out everywhere with their shining new toys, until finally,…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And…

— Cole Swensen

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce