The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain is a novella, or short story, written by Charles Dickens and first published in the Christmas of 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens’s Christmas novellas.

The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain was published in three parts:

  1. The Gift Bestowed.
  2. The Gift Diffused.
  3. The Gift Reversed.
Image from the Illustrated London News, 30 December 1848 of a contemporary theatrical production of The Haunted Man at the Adelphi Theatre.

You can read all of The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain on The Circumlocution Office. Use the navigation pane to move between the three chapters or click here to start reading Chapter 1.