The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
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Overall, this is a pretty satisfying collection. Eight stories total, only a couple left me less than thrilled, and a handful really exceeded my spookiest expectations.

#TheHauntingSeason #GhostStories #ChristmasGhosts #WinterGhosts #Bookstodon

A dark and deadly festive parable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQFXTNvBLKI&list=PL4I4FkJZyyCQgTeYIVFKXWfO2odbG86SW

#Christmas #ChristmasTV #ChristmasHorror #ChristmasGhostStory #ChristmasGhosts

That does it for me and these Christmas ghosts! Hope you found one you love.

"And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!"

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #CharlesDickens #AChristmasCarol

📖 story link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm#link1

I love this story. It's short and super accessible, but incredibly atmospheric and does a terrific job building the tension and suspense, right up to the final short paragraph.

P.S. The audio I'm linking is from The Classic Tales Podcast -- it's well worth following!

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #GertrudeAtherton #TheDeadAndTheCountess

📖 story link: http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/26/97.pdf

In fact, the only unpleasant thing at all about Lady Jane's new situation is the cantankerous, obstinate caretaker, Mr. Jones. Others on the estate tell her that he dislikes her changes and would rather things be left as they are.

And -- so strange -- she herself has never seen or spoken with Mr. Jones.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #EdithWharton #MrJones

**It was very tough to source this one online, and the one I did find is not great -- I'd recommend listening to this one.

But what makes this story, for me, are the descriptions. Bogs are "saffron-tinted". Winds are "ceaseless". Skies are "gray and hard as metal". It's all so wonderfully moody and atmospheric.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #TheCrownDerbyPlate #MarjorieBowen

📖 story link: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607711h.html

But what makes this story, for me, are the descriptions. Bogs are "saffron-tinted". Winds are "ceaseless". Skies are "gray and hard as metal". It's all so wonderfully moody and atmospheric.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #TheCrownDerbyPlate #MarjorieBowen

📖 story link: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607711h.html

It is perhaps this special connection with the natural world that prompts Hibbert to go skating at night. There, on the otherwise deserted rink, he encounters a ghostly ice skater. And falls in love with her.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #AlgernonBlackwood #TheGlamourOfTheSnow #WinterSolstice

📖 story link: https://americanliterature.com/author/algernon-blackwood/short-story/the-glamour-of-the-snow

It is perhaps this special connection with the natural world that prompts Hibbert to go skating at night. There, on the otherwise deserted rink, he encounters a ghostly ice skater. And falls in love with her.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #AlgernonBlackwood #TheGlamourOfTheSnow #WinterSolstice

📖 story link: https://americanliterature.com/author/algernon-blackwood/short-story/the-glamour-of-the-snow

I love this story. It has a sweet, rather than sinister, core, making it a perfect ghost story for the holidays. It would have made a great episode of The Twilight Zone.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #LadyAsquith #TheCornerShop

📖 story link: https://laurenhayes3rdyear.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/the-corner-shop-final-print.pdf

I love this story. It has a sweet, rather than sinister, core, making it a perfect ghost story for the holidays. It would have made a great episode of The Twilight Zone.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #LadyAsquith #TheCornerShop

📖 story link: https://laurenhayes3rdyear.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/the-corner-shop-final-print.pdf

But that's not the end of the terror for George Birch, whose questionable treatment of one of those bodies is about to come back to bite him.

Fun fact: Weird Tales, Lovecraft's go-to publication, originally rejected this story and took years to publish it. So even the greats have to work at it.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #HPLovecraft #InTheVault

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/iv.aspx

But that's not the end of the terror for George Birch, whose questionable treatment of one of those bodies is about to come back to bite him.

Fun fact: Weird Tales, Lovecraft's go-to publication, originally rejected this story and took years to publish it. So even the greats have to work at it.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #HPLovecraft #InTheVault

📖 story link: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/iv.aspx

It’s almost time for those bloody self-righteous ghosts to make their annual nuisance call…

#christmasghosts #dickens #spectralharrassment

https://tinyurl.com/yj9n4cdw

The title of the story really tells you all you need to know -- he does indeed spot the coach, thundering down a frosty path, and he does manage to climb aboard it.

But what he finds inside it might be terrifying enough to send him back out into the cold winter night.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #ThePhantomCoach #AmeilaEdwards

📖 link: https://stevedustcircleus.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/the-phantom-coach-amelia-b-edwards.pdf

The title of the story really tells you all you need to know -- he does indeed spot the coach, thundering down a frosty path, and he does manage to climb aboard it.

But what he finds inside it might be terrifying enough to send him back out into the cold winter night.

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #ThePhantomCoach #AmeilaEdwards

📖 link: https://stevedustcircleus.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/the-phantom-coach-amelia-b-edwards.pdf

What is the collective name? A ghost of A Christmas Carols?

#CharlesDickens #AChristmasCarol #ChristmasBooks #ChristmasGhosts #Scrooge #TinyTim

He tries to tell himself that it's only a shadow, but he is haunted by it.

And, that horrifying thing he saw on the croquet lawn, could that really have only been a shadow?

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #EFBenson #BetweenTheLights

📖 https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/classic-gothic-ghost-stories/between-the-lights-by-e-f-benson/

He tries to tell himself that it's only a shadow, but he is haunted by it.

And, that horrifying thing he saw on the croquet lawn, could that really have only been a shadow?

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #EFBenson #BetweenTheLights

📖 story link: https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/classic-gothic-ghost-stories/between-the-lights-by-e-f-benson/

This story, like so many of the greats, is less about paranormality and more about humanity. The first time I read it, I felt underwhelmed by its spookiness, but I found it stuck with me and became more haunting, more disturbing the longer I thought about it.

*the version I'm linking has annotations, which I found great, but might be annoying. feel free to skip them!

#Christmas #ChristmasGhosts #GhostStories #TheShadow #ENesbitt

📖 https://www.oldstyletales.com/single-post/2019/06/26/the-shadow-by-e-nesbit-with-footnote-annotations