Dickensblog

A Dickensian Halloween

In honor of the day, Digital Journal discusses some of Dickens's ghost stories, and reports on actor Dominc Gerrard's reading of them at the Charles Dickens Museum. And at Anglotopia, Bryan Kozlowski shares with us "Charles Dickens' Top Five Horrible Words for Halloween."

(H/T The Buzfuz)

More news on the 'Oliver!' remake

Once again, Oliver Twist is in the news: Rolling Stone has an update on the upcoming remake of the Oliver! film. It will be a contemporary film "with a genre-hopping soundtrack that will of course include hip-hop." Ice Cube (who also is preparing to play Scrooge in a Christmas Carol remake) will play Fagin, and Thomas Kail -- Tony-Award-winning director of the musical Hamilton -- will direct.

Charles Dickens, ghost hunter

Bustle has a fun piece about Dickens's activities with the Ghost Club, "one of the oldest paranormal investigation groups in the world."

'A Dickensian Alphabet' poster

This delightful poster by Tom Gauld, full of Dickensian figures and tropes, is a limited edition, so if you're interested, better hurry! (Another edition is scheduled for release later this year.)

Kozlowski on Dickens

Bryan Kozlowski has a new book out called What the Dickens!?: Distinctly Dickensian Words and How to Use Them, and he's been promoting it with a number of interesting new articles all over the Web, including the following:

• 10 Dickensian Character Names Deciphered
• 7 Delightful Dickensian Words
• Bryan Kozlowski describes 5 befuddling drinking words from Charles Dickens
• Coffee Is the Secret to Charles Dickens' Fiction

 

An unfortunate 'Twist'

Over at Aleteia, I have a new article about why NBC's proposed update of Oliver Twist is such a bad idea.

TCM alert

A Tale of Two Cities (1958) will air on TCM at 4:30 Eastern tomorrow (Monday).