A ghost story for Christmas and other ways to zone out of the festive frenzy
The tour that nearly killed Charles Dickens, a Boxing Day tradition and a creepy tale for a cold night

My first ever job was in a newsagent, stacking shelves with pickled onion-flavour Space Raiders and copies of the Beano. My six-year-old son’s theory on why I left this exalted position was a moral objection to selling cigarettes but in reality, be…



