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Summary

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories and was a great friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens.'The Ghost in the Cupboard Room' is a strange tale of a sailor who is captured by a vindictive enemy on the Spanish Main, who ties and gags him on the floor of the hold, which contains barrels of gunpowder...leaving a candle burning, to which, some way down, is attached a fuse leading to the explosives.The sailor must watch helplessly as the candle burns its way slowly towards the fuse....

Duration: 33 minutes (00:33:29)
Publishing date: 2015-12-10; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Classics
• Short Stories
• Contemporary Fiction