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Book Synopsis Fireside Ghost Stories for Christmas Eve by : Charles Dickens
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.
Book Synopsis Ghosts of Christmas Past by : Neil Gaiman
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.
Book Synopsis Fireside Stories by : Caitlin Matthews
Download or read book Fireside Stories written by Caitlin Matthews and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every time their brother turned a cartwheel, golden oranges fell from his pockets, along with sugar sweets in gold and silver paper. Schnitzle, Schnotzle & Schnootzle
Book Synopsis Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by : Frank Cowper
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.
Book Synopsis Ghostly Tales for Christmas Eve by : Gemma Dobson
Download or read book Ghostly Tales for Christmas Eve written by Gemma Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark nights have drawn in, so now is the time to start sharing spooky stories. Here are fourteen brand-new ghost stories, just waiting to bring a chill to your bones or a tear to your eye.
Download or read book Haunting Christmas Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Christmas Eve and a group of friends are gathered around a fireside. The only light source is the fire - the only sound the hiss of logs. Warmed by their intimacy a group of friends begin to tell ghost stories.
Book Synopsis The Toll-House by : William Wymark Jacobs
Download or read book The Toll-House written by William Wymark Jacobs and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-07-22 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shepherd written by Frederick Forsyth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas Eve, 1957: An RAF pilot needs a miracle to make it home as his fighter jet begins to fail, in a story by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. It is Christmas Eve, 1957, and there are cozier places to be than the cockpit of a de Havilland Vampire fighter plane. But for the Royal Air Force pilot who has just taken off from West Germany, this single-seat jet is the only way to make it back to England for Christmas morning. His flight plan is simple; the fuel tank is full. In sixty-six minutes, he will be back in Blighty. But then the plane begins to fail. First the compass goes haywire, then the radio dies. Lost and alone above the English coast, the pilot is searching for a landing strip when the fog closes in, signaling certain death. He has given up hope when a second shadow appears—a Mosquito fighter-bomber of World War II vintage. The plane is a “shepherd,” guiding the Vampire to a safe landing, and its appearance is a gift from fate, a miracle out of time—but for one lonely pilot, the mystery has just begun. A classic bestseller, beloved by aviation fans (including actor John Travolta, who calls it “one of my favorites because it personalizes the two planes”) and general readers alike, The Shepherd is a gripping, heartwarming tale for a cold winter’s night.
Book Synopsis Winter Tales by : Lesley Anne Wright
Download or read book Winter Tales written by Lesley Anne Wright and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Threatening, gloomy skies. Dark, chilly days and even darker, colder nights. Whispering from the corner or the rustle of dead leaves? A vision of the future or your worst nightmare come true? A silly game or a portal into the unknown? Was that a creak on the stairs or just the wind whistling in the eaves? You don’t have to believe in ghosts to enjoy a ghost story. Between these pages, you will find ghosts of all kinds. Not all ghosts are scary as I set out to prove in some of these stories. Some of the spirits within are indeed dark and vengeful, while others are playful and helpful and one wants to be forgiven for a past sin, despite the cruelty and injustice he himself suffered. All the stories within are set during winter, at or near Christmas, when in many homes it is traditional to read or listen to ghost stories, so curl up by the fireside and read on. I hope you enjoy the ghostly tales inside this cover. Sweet dreams and sleep well!
Book Synopsis Told After Supper by : Jerome K. Jerome
Download or read book Told After Supper written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories by : Arthur Conan Doyle
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"
Book Synopsis A Christmas Memory by : Truman Capote
Download or read book A Christmas Memory written by Truman Capote and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
Book Synopsis The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by : M. R. James
Download or read book The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 28 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.
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."
Book Synopsis Ghost-stories of an Antiquary by : Montague Rhodes James
Download or read book Ghost-stories of an Antiquary written by Montague Rhodes James and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Candle Game by : Stevenson Lovecraft Et Al Blackwood
Download or read book Candle Game written by Stevenson Lovecraft Et Al Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TRADITION OF CHRISTMAS STORIES THAT CHILL NOT FROM THE COLD, BUT FROM FEAR Forgotten today, for centuries winter stories-tales of the fantastic and macabre-were a requisite of the holiday season, and ghost stories by the fireside on Christmas Eve were as much a part of traditional celebrations as festively decorated trees and joyous carols. Yuletide ghost stories have grown to be forgotten, remembered now only dimly through annual retellings of the tribulations of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge at the hands of four Christmas ghosts. Yet in the season when dark nights are their longest and coldest and the upcoming new year turns thoughts to reflect on the past, what more natural atmosphere could there be for the ghostly to reach out and make itself known? Candle Game: (TM) Lost Ghosts of Christmas contains complete rules for play and features tales of Christmas frights from some of the greatest writers of the weird and macabre, including the chilling classic stories "Smee," "The Shadow," "The Old Portrait," and "Their Dear Little Ghost." Included as part of the game, these spooky tales can also be read on their own or shared as they were meant to be- in front of a flickering fire on a cold Christmas Eve, to later conjure perhaps visions of something other than sugar plums once all are nestled all snug in their beds ...
Book Synopsis The Doll's Ghost by : F Marion Crawford
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.
