CHARLES DICKENS - FACT AS STRANGE AS FICTION?

I wonder if Mark Gatiss - who wrote the 'Doctor Who' story "The Unquiet Dead" which featured Charles Dickens - was aware of this aspect of Dicken's life?  His legerdemain might have come in handy against the Gelth......

CHARLES DICKENS, THE UNPARALLELED NECROMANCER

BCnU!