Dickens's mysticism is very, very different (as, in fact, in the folklore that served as his inspiration) - poetic and naive, playful and serious. Some works are heartbreakingly tender, others have a strict moral and ethical message. Some are elegantly stylized as antique, others, on the contrary, are emphatically “everyday”. Good humor coexists with black and gallows humor, and mischief with a seriousness that would do credit to “Gothic” authors. The reader will have to languish with curiosity until the very end - which mystical story will ultimately receive a completely “earthly” explanation, and which will remain a door wide open to the unknown...