The Goblins and the Gravedigger

The Goblins and the Gravedigger

Bone and Sickle continues its holiday tradition of Christmas ghost stories, or a goblin story, in this case. Our tale about an encounter between a gravedigger, or sexton, and a host of goblins is extracted from Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, The Pickwick Papers.  Strangely, it is not Dickens’ only Christmas goblin story.

As a special holiday treat, our reader for the story beloved personality well known to all Bone and Sickle listeners.

1873 illustration for "The Pickwick Papers" by Thomas Nast.
1873 illustration for “The Pickwick Papers” by Thomas Nast.
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