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Author: Joan Aiken Publisher: ISBN: 9780439012850 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 269
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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.
Author: Joan Aiken Publisher: ISBN: 9780439012850 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 269
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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.
Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1473663474 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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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.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9780590550949 Category : Ghost stories, English Languages : en Pages : 269
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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.
Author: KIRK Publisher: Tales of the Weird ISBN: 9780712352529 Category : Christmas stories Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Tiya Miles Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469626349 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 175
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In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: ISBN: 9781943910564 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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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"
Author: Kate Mosse Publisher: Orion ISBN: 9781409148067 Category : Ghost stories Languages : en Pages : 0
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A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired by ghost stories, traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by spirits and ghosts seeking revenge; by grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny - all rooted deep in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc. The collection will include The Mistletoe Bride, La Fille de Melisande, Red Letter Day, The Lending Library, The House on the Hill ...
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