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Ghosts of Christmas Past

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1473663474
Total Pages : 192 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 192 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 : 33 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 33 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.

Christmas Ghost Stories

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Newton Page, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781934619001
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Christmas Ghost Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by Newton Page, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens used Christmas as the setting for four classic ghost stories. Assembled here for the first time in Christmas Ghost Stories are: A Christmas Carol; The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton; The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain; and The Haunted House. As popular today as when they were first written, these stories represent the enduring and complete body of Dickens' work dedicated to the seasonal genre for which he remains so well known.

Christmas Ghost Stories

Author : Michael J. Hallowell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445611392
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Christmas Ghost Stories written by Michael J. Hallowell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas Ghost Stories is a chilling collection of ghost stories with a Christmas theme.

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 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"

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

Supernatural Christmas Ghost Stories

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781551059198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural Christmas Ghost Stories written by Barbara Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartwarming yet eerie stories from that time of year when people may encounter specters of those who have passed to the other side. Includes a young man's encounter with the spirit of his grandfather, leading him the career of his dreams; a 1998 security camera image of the Grey Lady of Belgrave Hall in Leicester Square, London; a World War II life-saving warning to soldiers; a young mother and her infant, snowbound in a cabin, receive spectral visitors that bring food and firewood; and a deceased reverend watches over his flock.

The Christmas Carol

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557892902
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1948 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Afterward

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Afterward written by Edith Wharton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afterward by Edith Wharton is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters long after a business transgression where the character wronged another. Excerpt: "Oh, there is one, of course, but you'll never know it." The assertion laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting for the lamps to be brought into the library. The words had been spoken by their friend Alida Stair, as they sat at tea on her lawn at Pangbourne, in reference to the very house of which the library in question was the central, the pivotal "feature."

Victorian Christmas in Print

Author : T. Moore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230623336
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Christmas in Print written by T. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although people may not realize it, the modern Christmas book market carries on a Victorian legacy. An explosion of Christmas print matter reinvigorated and regularized the holiday during the mid-Victorian period, infusing Christmas with emotionally-charged expectations of reading. Tara Moore elucidates the evolution of Christmas publishing trends that dictated authors writing schedules and reflected gift-giving rituals. As Victorian shopping customs evolved, publishers satisfied consumers with a range of holiday print matter, including novels, ghost stories, periodicals, children s books, and poetry. Ultimately, Victorian Christmas in Print analyzes how the revitalized holiday and the flurry of texts supporting it contributed to English national identity.

A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375856536
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Join Jack, Annie and the Magic Tree House in this historical holiday story that puts a twist on Charles Dicken's classic The Christmas Carol--from the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Jack and Annie must help the famous writer Charles Dickens! The brother and sister are whisked back in time to Victorian England and the foggy streets of London. There, Jack and Annie discover that Charles Dickens has been thrown in jail! How can they help him? They will need all their magic-and help from three ghosts-to keep the great writer from ruining his life! Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House #44, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #16: A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time. The Merlin Missions books are more challenging adventures that will delight experienced readers who are fans of the original chapter book series! The Magic Tree House series has been a favorite for over 25 years and is sure to inspire a love of reading—and adventure—in every child who joins Jack and Annie! Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? • Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books • Magic Tree House Graphic Novels: Jack and Annie's original adventures come to life with full-color, vibrant art, perfect for graphic novel fans and reluctant readers • Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader • Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure • Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures

How Fear Departed the Long Gallery

Author : E. F. Benson
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771961953
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book How Fear Departed the Long Gallery written by E. F. Benson and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth. In How Fear Departed the Long Gallery, for the Peverils, the appearance of a ghost is no more upsetting than the appearance of the mailman at an ordinary house. Except for the twin toddlers in the Long Gallery. No one would dare be caught in the Long Gallery after dark. But on this quiet and cloudy afternoon, Madge Peveril is feeling rather drowsy . . . E. F. Benson was the English writer of the Mapp and Lucia series.

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 4

Author : Christopher Philippo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948405805
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 4 written by Christopher Philippo and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Valancourt Yuletide tradition returns, this time with rare 19th-century tales from U.S. newspapers and magazines The Christmas ghost story tradition is usually associated with Charles Dickens and Victorian England, but-apparently unknown to historians and scholars-Christmas ghost stories were extremely widespread and popular in 19th-century America as well, frequently appearing in newspapers and magazines during the holiday season. From legends of old New Orleans and strange happenings on the plains of Iowa and the Dakota Territory to weird doings in early Puerto Rico and ghostly events in Gold Rush-era San Francisco, the tales collected here reveal a forgotten Christmas ghost story tradition in a bygone America that is both familiar and oddly foreign. This collection features eighteen stories and nine poems, including entries by women and African American writers, plus extra bonus material and an introduction by Christopher Philippo. "He turned and beheld a low black figure, with a body no higher than his knees, with a prodigious head, in the brow of which was set a single eye of green flame like a shining emerald, and with hands and arms of supernatural length." - J. H. Ingraham, "The Green Huntsman; or, The Haunted Villa" "The latch lifted, the door swung open-and then-my God! what a spectacle! Through the open door there stepped a figure, not of Mrs. Hayden, not of her corpse, not of death, but a thousand times more horrible, a thing of corruption, decay, of worms and rottenness." - Anonymous, "Worse Than a Ghost Story"

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.