Christmas Stories. The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain

The Haunted Man is the fifth and last of Dickens`s Christmas novellas. The tale centers on a Professor Redlaw and those close to him. Redlaw often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw`s phantom twin and is&171;an awful likeness of himself, with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress...&187;