Ghosts for Christmas [Paperback]

Richard Dalby (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 339 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881845183
• ISBN-13: 978-0881845181
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,153,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Collection of Classic Christmas Ghosts Stories Ever!, November 10, 2010

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This review is from: Ghosts for Christmas (Paperback)

"There'll be scary ghost stories, and tales of the glories, of Christmases long, long ago." - from the song: "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"


And here is where you'll find the best of those tales from Victorian and Edwardian England, when flickering gaslight made ghosts seem a very real possibility indeed.

Here are English country houses with dark pasts, wronged young women who return from the grave, haunted groves in the forest where you should never cut down a tree, elevators that should be empty but aren't, Christmas parties with uninvited guests you only meet when the lights are out, and ghostly children you do not want to follow out into the snow.

Plus a couple of more recent items from our own century.

All perfect for a long, dark winter's night by the fireplace. (Or the space-heater.)

Enjoy! :)



Contents:

"Our Ghost Party" - Jerome K. Jerome

"The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton - Charles Dickens

"The Ghost Detective" - Mark Lemon

"The Dead Sexton" - J. Sheridan Le Fanu

"Markheim" - Robert Louis Stevenson

"The Ghost of Christmas Eve" - J.M. Barrie

"The Real and the Counterfeit" - Mrs. Alfred Baldwin

"Number Ninety" - Mrs. B.M. Croker

"Thurlow's Christmas Story" - J.K. Bangs

"Their Dear Little Ghost" - Elia W. Peattie

"Wolverton Tower" - Grant Allen

"A Ghost-Child" - Bernard Capes

"The Kit-Bag" - Algernon Blackwood

"The Shadow" - E. Nesbit

"The Irtonwood Ghost" - Elinor Glyn

"Bone To His Bone" - E.G. Swain

"Transition" - Algernon Blackwood

"The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance" - M.R. James

"The Sculptor's Angel" - Marie Corelli

"The Snow" - Hugh Walpole

"Smee" - A.M. Burrage

"The Prescription" - Marjorie Bowen

"The Demon King" - J.B. Priestly

"Lucky's Grove" - H. Russell Wakefield

"I Shall Take Proper Precautions" - George H. Bushnell

"Christmas Meeting" - Rosemary Timperley

"Someone In The Lift" - L.P. Hartley

"The Christmas Present" - Ramsey Campbell

"Christmas Entertainment" - Daphne Froome

"Gebal and Ammon and Amalek" - David G. Rowlands

...and an Introduction by Richard Dalby, arguably the world's leading expert on the classic English ghost story.