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Doctor Who Christmas Special: A Christmas Carol

This month’s Doctor Who Appreciation Night is a special treat, two Dickensian pieces for the price of none. First up is A Christmas Carol, the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special originally aired Christmas day. Following this is The Unquiet Dead where the Doctor and Rose travel back [Read it all...]

It's December...Where's My Dickens?It’s December…Where’s My Dickens?

It’s December, and you know what that means…it’s the time of year for the most famous ghost story of all: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Sure, you may be heading to the multiplex to catch Disney’s latest version starring multitudes of Jim Carreys, but if you are looking for a different take this year we [Read it all...]

Scaring the Dickens out of them

Here’s something for the writers among us. Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in nearby Lockhart, Texas, is holding a Dickens-themed ghost story contest.

Contest entries must include a character from one of Charles Dickens’ works, be set in December around any of the December holidays and be under 4,000 words in length. The contest benefits Texas’ oldest continually-in-use library.

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