The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton by Charles Dickens

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Certainly! "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" is a short story written by Charles Dickens as part of his collection titled "The Pickwick Papers." The narrative follows Gabriel Grub, a grumpy and ill-tempered sexton (grave digger) in a small village. Gabriel despises Christmas and all its festivities, choosing instead to revel in his solitude. One Christmas Eve, while digging a grave in the churchyard, Gabriel encounters a group of goblins who emerge from the ground. The goblins, led by their king, force Gabriel to join them in their underworld festivities. In this fantastical realm, Gabriel witnesses scenes from his past and present, highlighting his callous behavior and the impact it has had on those around him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.0	The story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens from the Pickwick Papers.
1:16.8	In an old Abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago, so long that the story must be a true one,
1:26.4	because our great-grandfathers implicitly believed it,
1:29.5	they're officiated as sexton and gravedigger in the churchyard, one Gabriel Grub. It by no means
1:37.1	follows that because a man is a sexton and constantly surrounded by the emblems of mortality,
1:43.8	therefore he should be a morose and melancholy man.
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1:52.1	intimate terms with a mute, who, in private life and off-duty, was as comical and jocose a little
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