#christmasghoststories

[jonathanstroud]

Posted @withrepost • @dhachildrens Are you ready for a spooktacular Book-mas recommendation? Today's Christmas read comes from the brilliant @jonathan.stroud 🎄☠️ JS: Ghosts enjoy Christmas like everybody else, and a good spooky tale is a fine corrective to all the enforced jollity and turkey-fuelled good cheer. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol fuses darkness and redemption to create obviously the greatest festive book of all. It should be required yearly reading (just as The Muppets’ Christmas Carol is THE essential family watch). But I’m going to go out on a limb here, and recommend M R James’s Ghost Stories as my Xmas pick. These aren’t stories about Christmas, but many of them were written for Christmas. James was Provost at Eton, and he wrote his stories specifically for reading out to friends and pupils on Christmas Eve. You’ve got vengeful spirits, demonic guardians, nasty things hiding in ash trees, white flappy shapes hunting you along deserted beaches, and many other horrors, all hinted at with impeccable Edwardian restraint. In short, they’re the best creepy stories in English and perfect for the season, so take a peek into the midwinter dark and see what’s wandering there. Happy Reading! #christmasreading #christmasbooks #christmasadvent #festiveseason #festivereading #ghoststories #spookyreads #christmasghoststories #kidslit #kidsbooksofinstagram #kidsbookstagram #childrenschristmasbooks #childrensbooks #lockwood #lockwoodandco https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJuwigrbkv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[theholidaycorner]

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[georgelthomas]

The History of Telling Ghost Stories at Christmas

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Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well!It’s that time of year again—the time for eggnog and Christmas cookies, and as the winter nights draw close and turn chilly, there is no better time for telling a ghost story around the fireplace or, if you’re anything like me, reading them in bed at night. But when did this tradition begin? Why do we like to tell ghost stories at Christmas? Let’s explore! The…

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[ednajoness]

#Edna Jones

[bewitchingbooktours]

A sweet, festive story with a dash of the supernatural New York Miracle: A Christmas Novella Margo Laurie Genre: Paranormal Romance, Women’s Fiction Length: Novella ASIN: ‎ B0BN9LCXTK Publisher: ‎ Calleia Press Publication Date: ‎December 18, 2022 Book Description: Ellie Peach travels to Manhattan for an apprenticeship in the Garment District. While staying at a historic boarding house, she meets the charming and eccentric James Denny. He claims to be a Broadway actor waiting for his lost love. When Ellie offers to help search for her, it leads to old secrets and adventure... https://amzn.to/3VjGo9L #holidaynovella #christmasbooks #festivereads #christmasread #holidaybooks #christmasghoststories #christmasnovella #margolaurieauthor #christmasbookstagram #ziegfeldfollies #PNR #ParanormalRomance #GhostRomance — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/kl0eTNW

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[djohnhopper]

GHOSTS for Christmas. Just started reading Catherine Crowe's 'Ghosts and Family Legends: a volume for Christmas' published in 1859. Also about to start her 'The Night-Side of Nature, or Ghosts and Ghost Seers' of 1848. Recently discovered Catherine, would love to have known her. Strange fact: In February 1854, she was discovered naked in Edinburgh one night, convinced that spirits had rendered her invisible. #CatherineCrowe #ghoststories #christmasghoststories #reading

#catherine crowe #ghost stories #christmas ghost stories #started reading

[bahhumpug]

My Christmas books stack. I won't get through all of them, but that just gives me something to look forward to next Christmas! But I'm definitely getting through at least one of the Valancourt books this year. Why is it considered an old tradition to have ghost stories at Christmas? * #funaekreads #funaekbooks #instabooks #instareads #spookybook #christmasbooks #christmasghoststories #christmasmysteries #tbr #tbrstack #tbrpile #seasonalreading #britishlibrarycrimeclassics #valancourtbooks #penguinchristmasclassics https://www.instagram.com/p/B5xvVUAAmmQ/?igshid=18d1hwzau2wfq

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[thedarkplume]

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[generallygothic]

"𝕾𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖆𝖘 𝖙𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖋 𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖇𝖞 𝖑𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖆𝖞 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖊𝖜 𝖘𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊." - Catherine Wells 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 The gothic has been connected to Christmas through ritual and natural world darkness, since before Christmas was Christmas, and across the globe. There is, however, one era above all that I consider the peak of gothic yule. It is upon the enduring seasonal traditions of this era that our own modern customs are founded. Marked by the then-Queen's reign of Britain (and many suppressed and/or stolen lands) I am of course speaking of the Victorian period. 💡 The 19th century was a time of great change; it was hugely problematic in many areas, but social reforms saw improvements - or movement toward improvements - in many areas. The electrification of the nation saw vast and rapid development in the direction of modernity. The industrial revolution commercialised custom. Stories, once travelling aloud from person to person, were available in print. The Victorians, already obsessed with the paranormal, were accustomed to telling spooky stories around the Christmas fireplace. Now the great storytellers of their generation could pull up a stool and share their tales in homes across the nation. 💡 Many of these tales endure to this day - Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, R. L. Stevenson... All feature across the collections pictured above and are, I am sure, familiar to many of you, at least by name. 💡 As I dip into the pictured selection of [not exclusively] Victorian ghost stories, I am curious to know: ⚜Do you have a favourite short, Victorian ghost story? ⚜Is there a tale or author you favour each festive season? . #bookstagram #bookstack #victoriangothic #ghoststories #shortstories #spookynerd #gothic #generallygothic #christmasghoststories #christmasreading #charlesdickens (at Victorian London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXuOaLooR92/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[ofgraveconcern]

Latest Orders completed (part two) Thank you to everyone who ordered over the weekend! at the Darksome Black Sheep Holiday Market @darksomecraftmkt Go to www.ofgraveconcern.com for your own gothic art inspired from history 1348 - 1848 #christmasghost #christmasghoststories #ghosts #ghosthistory #ghost #strangehistory #darkhistory #weirdhistory #artshowcase #christmashistory #historyofchristmas #gothicchristmas #gothchristmas #darkchristmas #darksomevirtualmarket #darkart #darkartandcraft #darkaesthetic #christmasmarket #christmasmarkets #uniquechristmas #halloweeniseveryday #gothicmarket #gothshopping #morbidmacabre #macabreart #macabreartist #oddities #odditiesandcuriosities #odditiesforsale https://www.instagram.com/p/CXMIefsgX09/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[penelopecat]

Time for the tradition of the spooky Christmas tale with the arrival of the Misty Winter Special from @britcomics. Instead of the usual collection of short stories we’ve gotten in other specials from them this year, this features just two longer tales. And they’re both really good and really creepy! #thismakesmehappy #comics #britishcomics #misty #mistycomic #mistywinterspecial #treasuryofbritishcomics #horror #horrorcomics #christmas #holiday #holidaycomics #christmascomic #christmascomics #christmasghoststories https://www.instagram.com/p/CIbDLkWBUDN/?igshid=1hj8a11raqt33

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[friend-through-teenage-nights]

Someone apparently got a little too giddy on the Victorian Ghost Story at Christmas idea and commissioned an adaption every weekday this week, plus a drama about the great MISTER James himself on Saturday and next week further adaptions of his stories. Just like any other time of year really. 

#MRJames #ghoststories #christmasghoststories #radio4extra

[lacreeperie]

Still too early for me, but I know lots of you are ready! New in the shop. #charlesdickens #christmasghoststories #classics #gothicfiction #anthology #literature

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[bahhumpug]

Whenever I'm having a difficult time, I buy more books. Fun books. And so I couldn't resist these gorgeous editions of Christmas ghost stories from @biblioasis_books. * #funaekreads #funaekbooks #instabooks #instareads #spookybook #spookishbookish #biblioasis #biblioasisbooks #pugsandbooks #christmasghoststories https://www.instagram.com/p/BricyI7n0wP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ljhs87kuuwsa

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