Book excerpt: The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the last story in the series of Charles Dickens' Christmas classics. The protagonist, Professor Redlaw, approaches the holidays unable to forgive or forget about events from his unhappy past. A ghost appears to the professor with a seemingly ideal offer: he will allow Redlaw to completely forget about any past sorrow or wrongdoing. But when the professor accepts the deal, he gets more than he bargained for... This is a free digital copy of a book that has been carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. To make this print edition available as an ebook, we have extracted the text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and submitted it to a review process to ensure its accuracy and legibility across different screen sizes and devices. Google is proud to partner with libraries to make this book available to readers everywhere.