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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.
A collection of original Christmas ghost stories from authors such as Joan Aiken, Jill Bennett and Anthony Masters. Age group 8+.
It's Christmas Eve and a group of friends have gathered around the fireside in a remote cottage. A hushed anticipation falls over the group as, safe inside where surely nothing can harm them, they begin to tell eerie stories of restless spirits eternally condemned to walk the earth.
As the title suggests, this book will add delightful chills to the holiday season with tales of ghosts and haunted houses. Seven stories of varying lengths, all with a Christmas theme. The sharing of Christmas/Winter ghost stories, whether oral or written, is a tradition that has persisted for many years, perhaps even centuries. I humbly add to the existing body of works these seven stories: Spirits in the Night, Exchanging Chances - An elderly man guards his house against the inevitable arrival of a disturbing spirit. Strange Encounters on the Night Before Christmas - A man at a bar is forced to listen to the ramblings of a mysterious old gentleman who won't stop talking about a nearby haunted house The Snow People - In the aftermath of a tragedy, a woman wishes to protect her children from grief and sorrow with new beginnings. But some things continue on. Seasonal Allergies - A story pieced together from found journals about a house in the woods that is hostile to all life forms Advent Calendar - The parents of a college-aged woman dedicate a whole month to prepare their daughter for some kind of happening that will occur on Christmas. With every passing day, things become more strange. Winter Solstice and the Secret Spirits - Three friends go on a holiday retreat to a mystical House. There they will play an altered version of "Secret Santa". They will ask the House to assign them secret spirits to act as gift bearers. In the end, they might not be fully prepared for the gifts they are about to receive Secret Spirits Reprise (Children's Version ((Really?)) - A silly poem to reset the mood left over from the previous story.
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.
Another festive edition to the Tales of the Weird series, following on from Spirits of the Season and Chill Tidings. A unique selection ranging from the spooky haunted houses of Victorian Christmastime to experimental twentieth-century horrors. It offers a truly international scope of stories, from the pine forests of Canada to the peaks of the Alps. Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such things should actually become real. Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and Robert Aickman. Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits, vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm - and prepare for the longest nights of all.
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.
It's Christmas Eve. Snow falls in fierce flurries and a cold biting wind howls around the house. A group of friends tell tales of Christmas, but these tales are to freeze the very marrow in your bones, and to chill the depths of your soul. This is a collection of spooky short stories.