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Ghosts of Christmas Past

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473663474
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Christmas Past written by Neil Gaiman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943910564
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume. "In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed, with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave, and awaiting the demon that animated it?" - John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" "Suddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Something--what, I knew not--seemed near, something nameless, but unutterably awful." - Ada Buisson, "The Ghost's Summons" "There was no longer any question what she was, or any thought of her being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions which had animated her while she lived." - Walter Scott, "The Tapestried Chamber"

Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk

Author : Frank Cowper
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771962607
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk written by Frank Cowper and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore—and finds himself trapped when a surge snaps the mooring line and his punt floats away. Sleep eludes him, and soon he discovers that he's not the only one trapped on the derelict ship.

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three

Author : Ellen Wood
Publisher : Valancourt Books
ISBN 13 : 9781948405218
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three by : Ellen Wood

Download or read book The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Three written by Ellen Wood and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of twenty ghostly tales of Yuletide terror, collected from rare Victorian periodicals Seeking to capitalize on the success of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Victorian newspapers and magazines frequently featured ghost stories at Christmas time, and reading them by candlelight or the fireside became an annual tradition, a tradition Valancourt Books is pleased to continue with our series of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. This third volume contains twenty tales, most of them never before reprinted. They represent a mix of the diverse styles and themes common to Victorian ghost fiction and include works by once-popular authors like Ellen Wood and Charlotte Riddell as well as contributions from anonymous or wholly forgotten writers. This volume also features a new introduction by Prof. Simon Stern. "Before me, with the sickly light from the lantern shining right down upon it, was--a cloven hoof! Then the awfulness of the compact I had made came to my mind with terrible force ..." - Frederick Manley, "The Ghost of the Cross-Roads" "By the fireplace there was a large hideous pool of blood soaking into the carpet, and leaving ghastly stains around. I am not ashamed to confess that my brain reeled; the mysterious horror overcame me ..." - Lillie Harris, "19, Great Hanover Street" "A fearful white face comes to me; a horrible mask, with features drawn as in agony--ghastly, pale, hideous! Death or approaching death, violent death, written in every line. Every feature distorted. Eyes starting from the head. Thin lips moving and working--lips that are cursing, although I hear no sound." - Hugh Conway, "A Dead Man's Face"

Spirits of the Season

Author : KIRK
Publisher : Tales of the Weird
ISBN 13 : 9780712352529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Spirits of the Season written by KIRK and published by Tales of the Weird. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festive cheer turns to maddening fear in this new collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the best Christmas ghost stories from the 1850s to the 1960s. The traditional trappings of the holiday are turned upside down as restless spirits disrupt the merry games of the living, Christmas trees teem with spiteful pagan presences, and the Devil himself treads the boards at the village pantomime. As the cold night of winter closes in and the glow of the hearth begins to flicker and fade, the uninvited visitors gather in the dark in this distinctive assortment of haunting tales.

The Stone Gods

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547416261
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Stone Gods written by Jeanette Winterson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whitbread Prize–winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that “transports us to something like the future of our own planet” (The Washington Post Book World). On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet—pristine and habitable, like our own was sixty-five million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they’re assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike’s flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past—“Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was.” What will happen when their story combines with the world’s story? Will they—and we—ever find a safe landing place? Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny, The Stone Gods will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love, and about stories themselves. “Scary, beautiful, witty and wistful by turns, dipping into the known past as it explores potential futures.” —The New York Times Book Review “[A book] that you don’t so much read as drink in, refuse to put down, cast inside of like a hunting dog, seeking against all odds the insight that will illuminate everything, a true answer to the fix we’re in.” —Los Angeles Times “A vivid, cautionary tale—or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling author of Changing Planes

The Diary of Mr. Poynter (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Author : M. R. James
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473379121
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Mr. Poynter (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.

Afterward

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771961341
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Afterward written by Edith Wharton and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the truth about the legend that haunts the ancient estate.

Horror: a True Tale

Author : John Harwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Horror: a True Tale written by John Harwood and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Horror: A True Tale by John Berwick Harwood. "My Darlings. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. What I have written really and truly happened." The telling of Ghost Stories on Christmas Eve is a common tradition. It's up to you to plunge deeper into the nightmare by reading it yourself.

Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781977752819
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve written by Charles Dickens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories at Christmas can be traced back to pagan times - Yule and Saturnalia - when the Winter Solstice (like Hallowe'en and Wulpurgis Night) was viewed as a moment in space and time where the thinness of the boundaries between the supernatural and human worlds became remarkably plastic, and all manner of strange things were said to be seen and heard in the winter air. while we no longer have the old stories spoken in the old homes around the old fires by the old myth-keepers, let us sit around and enjoy some of the stories that would have sent shivers up the great-great-grandchildren of those little ones sitting around the Yule fire - the supernatural literature of the Victorians and Edwardians. Enclosed in this volume are tales of dark winter nights and harrowing encounters between the worlds of Man and the Hereafter. There are tales of cursed antiquities, otherworldly toy stores, possessed dolls, deals with the devil, and murderous cabin fever. I hope your Christmas is - as M. R. James put it "may be the cheerfuller for a story-book" which takes you back to a different world - one not mapped out, trending, or tweeted about, one dark, forbidding, and evocative. Perhaps I may be a luddite for saying it, but I find something strangely comforting in that. Something consoling and hushing and chilling. Perhaps you will, too.

The Doll's Ghost

Author : F Marion Crawford
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 9781771964531
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book The Doll's Ghost written by F Marion Crawford and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2021.

Christmas Ghosts

Author : Kathryn Cramer
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 9780440202172
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Christmas Ghosts written by Kathryn Cramer and published by Dell. This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remember the Dead at Halloween & Christmas

Author : J. a. Mains
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913038403
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Remember the Dead at Halloween & Christmas written by J. a. Mains and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Shuck Books presents REMEMBER THE DEAD AT HALLOWEEN AND CHRISTMAS, edited by British Fantasy Award winner J.A. Mains. An all-new anthology of 'lost' Victorian and Edwardian stories set or published during the two seasons where the dead like us to remember them the most... Editor Mains has spent four years researching and bringing this book to life and with a previously unknown Edith Nesbit tale, REMEMBER THE DEAD showcases the very best of early supernatural fiction and is a must for any serious lover of the genre.

The Christmas Eve Ghost

Author : Shirley Hughes
Publisher : Walker
ISBN 13 : 9781406320633
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Eve Ghost written by Shirley Hughes and published by Walker. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring tale of Christmas goodwill and acceptance. 1930s Liverpool is brought alive with evocative drawings in a story that recognizes the richness of human kindness, even in times of hardship and poverty.

How Fear Departed the Long Gallery

Author : E. F. Benson
Publisher : Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
ISBN 13 : 9781771961943
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (619 download)

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Book Synopsis How Fear Departed the Long Gallery by : E. F. Benson

Download or read book How Fear Departed the Long Gallery written by E. F. Benson and published by Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An classic ghost story by E.F. Benson is revived in this illustrated Christmas edition by inimitable cartoonist Seth.

Christmas Ghost Stories

Author : Mark Onspaugh
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481014427
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Christmas Ghost Stories written by Mark Onspaugh and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Christmas stocking will be complete without the "scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago" promised by this tantalizing collection of dark, fantastical and romantic "winter tales" from the pen of horror writer Mark Onspaugh. Sometimes funny, sometimes scary and occasionally bittersweet, this collection of Christmas Ghost Stories is perfect fare for sharing aloud by the fire or cuddling with someone (or something!) toasty on a moonless December night. Featuring well over a dozen stories which can be read alone or sewn together, Onspaugh's original Christmas Ghost Stories entertain with supernatural flights of fancy, mysterious creatures and four interwoven fairy tales from the shadowy Black Forest. Nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize, writer Onspaugh is delighted to have been compared to his favorite authors Ray Bradbury and Stephen King. He has several new collections of short stories and a novel Kushtaka coming out soon.

The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark

Author : Lawrence Gordon Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957392779
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark written by Lawrence Gordon Clark and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, during the Christmas holiday period, the BBC broadcast a drama called The Stalls of Barchester, directed by former documentarist Lawrence Gordon Clark, and based on writer Montague Rhodes James' The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral. That 45-minute film, initially created to fill a festive programming slot, initiated a BBC tradition that ran for the next six years under the umbrella title of A Ghost Story for Christmas, which also established a link between the young director and that most quintessential of English ghost story writers. Here, for the first time, Lawrence Gordon Clark writes about his experiences in making these chilling supernatural vignettes at an exciting and creative time in the broadcasting corporation's existence. Included here are the very stories by M. R. James upon which the dramas were based prefaced with exclusive new introductions by the director, plus appendices.