Charles Dickens was a master of the macabre. His stories of madness, murder and revenge, often imbued with a sympathetic moral undertone, have continued to thrill and chill readers ever since they were written. Here then are 15 tales that display the full range of Dickensâs Gothic talents. The Signalman, perhaps the most well-known, is a chilling story about a mysterious figure and its deathly omen; The Haunted Man and the Ghostâs Bargain shows the consequences for those who make deals with the dead; The Portrait-Painterâs Story follows an artist who paints a non-living person by memory; and Captain Murderer and the Devilâs Bargain, a bedtime story from Dickensâs own childhood, tells of a bloodthirsty man who kills his brides and bakes them into pies. Among others, the collection also includes A Christmas Carol, The Baron of Grogzwig from The Pickwick Papers, and The Ghost in the Brideâs Chamber, a novella co-written with Wilkie Collins.