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Author: Shirley Hughes
Publisher: Walker
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781406338492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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.
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2017-10-19
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1473663474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Frank Cowper
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1771962607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading 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.
Author: Jamie Suzanne
Publisher: Sweet Valley
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780553157673
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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-09-27
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781977752819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhost 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.
Author: James Shannon Abney
Publisher:
Published: 2022-08-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbout the Book People have reported sensing or seeing ghosts for as long as remembered and recorded in history. Ghosts are considered to be the spirits of the dead. The body is of this earth while the spirit is not. The body will return to dust, but the spirit will return to where it came from. The spirit waits for the time for this to happen. Sometimes they get restless or want to contact someone who isn't dead.
Author: Walter De La Mare
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1771962585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. Behind the run-down bookstore is a private room for favoured customers, a strange little annex with a stranger atmosphere. The young man feels a wistful presence vying got his attention as he browses, and when he leaves, he knows he will return. Something has been asked of him, and he will answer.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-29
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781943910564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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"
Author: KIRK
Publisher: Tales of the Weird
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780712352529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFestive 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.
Author: Tony Walker
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK★ Nine Ghost Stories That Capture The Spirit of Christmas ★ The Christmas tree lights, The carol singers and the shadows that wait out in the snow. Traditional ghost stories written in the true spirit of Christmas. Chilling tales with a twist that will kindle the true spirit of Christmas in your hearts. Ghosts that emerge from the snow, doors that eat you, spirits that beg you to do them a service. Perfect to read on a dark winter's night. This book will convince you that the dead do return, and they do so on Christmas Eve! Seven new stories from Tony Walker, producer of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast and author of three other volumes of ghost stories. This book contains seven new stories plus bonus material of the three from the previous successful volume of Christmas Ghost Stories.
