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.