AN EERIE, darkly comic treat for the darkening evenings of the festive season will be brought to life on the stage in Rhyl next month .

Theatre troupe the Rhyl Liberty Players will present the ghastly Christmas tales for three nights of celebrating the macabre mind of Charles Dickens in Ghost Stories at the Little Theatre from Tuesday, December 4.

Beguiled in early childhood by his nursemaid's grim and ghoulish stories, the world famous Victorian novelist harboured a lifelong fascination with ghosts, ghouls, apparitions and chilling coincidence.

Dramatised by David John Preece, this selection is a lively mixture of comedy, pathos and the supernatural, including The Signalman, Trial for Murder, The Letter from Afar, Ghosts of the Mail, The Queer Chair, Sisters from Perth and The Portrait Painter.

Breathing life into Dicken's gothic mini masterpieces is the celebrated Liberty Players, who in September scooped four awards at the Clwyd Full Length Drama Festival with their 2017 production of Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters and their three-night run in June of John Osborne’s The Entertainer.

The group, which celebrated its 75th birthday last year and is based at the Little Theatre, was declared the outright winner with The Entertainer, directed by Richard Kelly.

Join the award winners for Ghost Stories from from Tuesday, December 4 until Saturday 6 at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £9, with concessions available, to book visit ticketsource.co.uk.