The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In commonly referred to as The Chimes is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844 one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books" five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.
In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).