In haste, Dickens stepped in, and wrote Great Expectations, one of his best books. It appears that the current novel was not working, and the magazine was losing readership. At the time, he was editing his literary magazine, Household Words, which had as a staple a serialized novel. There is a story about the great English writer Charles Dickens that I’ve always cherished. Could that somehow be related to Uncle Charlie’s ghost? On top of that, rumors have been circulating about a student who went missing shortly before Tony arrived. The Penda School is eerie enough without his uncle’s ghost making it worse. Then he starts seeing Uncle Charlie everywhere! It doesn’t help that Tony switched schools-it was Uncle Charlie’s dying wish that Tony attend the Penda School, where Uncle Charlie himself went as a kid. When Uncle Charlie dies suddenly, Tony is devastated. Uncle Charlie is still odd, of course-talking about spirits and other supernatural stuff-but he and Tony become fast friends, and Tony ends up having a lot of fun with Uncle Charlie. In School of the Dead, for most of Tony Gilbert’s life, he has thought of his uncle as “Weird Uncle Charlie.” That is, until Uncle Charlie moves in with Tony and his family.
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