Download or read book Spirits of the Season written by KIRK and published by Tales of the Weird. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Remember the Dead at Halloween Christmas written by J. a. Mains and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Shuck Books presents REMEMBER THE DEAD AT HALLOWEEN AND CHRISTMAS, edited by British Fantasy Award winner J.A. Mains. An all-new anthology of 'lost' Victorian and Edwardian stories set or published during the two seasons where the dead like us to remember them the most... Editor Mains has spent four years researching and bringing this book to life and with a previously unknown Edith Nesbit tale, REMEMBER THE DEAD showcases the very best of early supernatural fiction and is a must for any serious lover of the genre.
Download or read book Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk written by Frank Cowper and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading 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.
Download or read book Chill Tidings written by Tanya Kirk and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood.' The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry. Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on joining or ruining the most wonderful time of the year. Featuring classic tales from Algernon Blackwood, Rosemary Timperley, Sheridan Le Fanu and Elinor Glyn alongside rare pieces from the sleeping periodicals and literary magazines of the Library collection, it's time to open the door and let the real festivities begin.
Download or read book Told After Supper written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book A Literary Christmas written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas on a diet. Enjoy a Christmas Day as described by Samuel Pepys, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, or Nancy Mitford. Venture out into the snow in the company of Jane Austen, Henry James, and Dickens's Mr. Pickwick. Entertain the children with the seasonal tales of Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Grahame, and Oscar Wilde.
Download or read book The Curse of the Catafalques written by F. Anstey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curse of the Catafalques by F. Antsey is about a young man whose uncle has sent him to Australia for work. He soon meets a distraught man named McFadden who charges him for finding a young lady named Chlorine who is to be his betrothed. Excerpt: "Unless I am very much mistaken, until the time when I was subjected to the strange and exceptional experience which I now propose to relate, I had never been brought into close contact with anything of a supernatural description. At least if I ever was, the circumstance can have made no lasting impression upon me, as I am quite unable to recall it."
Download or read book Ghosts of Christmas Past written by Neil Gaiman and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Big Book of Ghost Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in book form. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight. Including such classics as “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Open Window” and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore! AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore!
Download or read book Fiction River Time Streams written by Fiction River and published by Wmg Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the ninteenth century to a vast future. Featuring work from award winners to bestsellers to a few newcomers whose time will come, Time Streams turns the time-travel genre on its head"--P. 4 of cover.
Download or read book Roald Dahl s Book of Ghost Stories written by Roald Dahl and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Download or read book Haunting Experiences written by Diane Goldstein and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Download or read book A Midnight Clear written by Sam Hooker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Anthologies, 2020 International Book Awards Six stories of not-so-merry Yuletide whimsy. A woman so cold she hardens to ice on a winter's eve. Risen from his grave before his time, a winter god alters the balance between seasons. A wolf's holiday season is interrupted by a strange curse. From a murder at the Stanley Hotel to demons of Christmas past, present, and future, and a mad elf and Santa's Candy Court, these authors share their love for winter holidays in this collection of dark winter tales, destined to chill your bones and warm your heart for the Yuletide season.
Download or read book Dark Christmas Collection 30 Supernatural Thrillers Mysteries Ghost Stories written by Charles Dickens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Christmas Collection offers a poignant blend of chilling narratives and yuletide eeriness, showcasing over thirty supernatural thrillers, mysteries, and ghost stories. This anthology boasts a remarkable range of literary styles, from the gothic to the quaintly macabre, each piece echoing the unique allure of the festive season intertwined with the supernatural. The diversity within this collection is its crown jewel, presenting readers with a spectrum of eerie Christmas tales that promise to enchant and unsettle in equal measure. Standout pieces, without singling out authors, manage to perfectly encapsulate the dual spirits of Christmas and spectral wonder, making this compilation a notable contribution to the genre of supernatural literature. The contributing writers, ranging from the likes of Charles Dickens to M.R. James, are unified by their mastery in crafting narratives that delve into the darker facets of the human and beyond-human experience, often against the stark, contrasting backdrop of Christmas cheer. This convergence of authors, many of whom were pioneers or significant figures in their respective eras, represents a cross-section of literary movements from Victorian ghost stories to early modernist explorations of the uncanny. The anthology serves not only as a captivating collection of ghostly Christmas tales but also as a lens through which the evolution of the supernatural in literature can be observed, highlighting how different generations have interpreted the intertwining of festive joy and spectral dread. Dark Christmas Collection is an indispensable volume for anyone fascinated by the shadowy borderlands where the Christmas spirit meets the supernatural. It invites readers to revel in a multi-faceted exploration of ghostly narratives that challenge and redefine traditional yuletide imagery. This anthology is not just a reading experienceit is an invitation to witness a unique blend of horror and celebration, making it a distinctive addition to any collection. Scholars, enthusiasts, and casual readers alike will find educational value, varied insights, and above all, a rich tapestry of stories that echo the complex relationship between the living and the ethereal, encapsulated within the amber glow of Christmas.
Download or read book E F Benson Complete Short Stories Collection 70 Classic Ghost Spook Supernatural Mystery Haunting and Other Tales written by E. F. Benson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. F. Benson's 'Complete Short Stories Collection' features over 70 classic tales spanning the genres of ghost, spook, supernatural, mystery, haunting, and more. Known for his gripping narratives and keen sense of atmosphere, Benson's stories captivate readers with their eerie and suspenseful themes. Set against the backdrop of the early 20th century, the collection reflects Benson's fascination with the supernatural and the unknown, making it a must-read for fans of gothic literature. The skillful blend of psychological tension and intricate plots showcases Benson's mastery of the short story form. Each tale is carefully crafted to evoke a sense of dread and anticipation, leaving readers spellbound until the very last page. With themes ranging from haunted houses to sinister apparitions, 'Complete Short Stories Collection' offers a diverse selection of haunting and mysterious narratives for lovers of the macabre. E. F. Benson, a prolific writer and novelist, drew inspiration from his own experiences and surroundings to create a world where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur. His deep interest in the occult and paranormal phenomena is evident in his storytelling, adding depth and complexity to his works. As a member of the Bloomsbury Group and a contemporary of authors like Virginia Woolf, Benson's unique perspective and storytelling techniques set him apart as a master of the ghost story genre. For readers seeking a chilling and immersive literary experience, E. F. Benson's 'Complete Short Stories Collection' is a treasure trove of haunting tales that will satisfy any aficionado of supernatural fiction. Whether you are a seasoned fan of ghost stories or a newcomer to the genre, Benson's collection promises a thrilling journey through the realms of the unknown and the unexplained.
Download or read book The Haunting of Vancouver Island written by Shanon Sinn and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling investigation into supernatural events and local lore on Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island is known worldwide for its arresting natural beauty, but those who live here know that it is also imbued with a palpable supernatural energy. Researcher Shanon Sinn found his curiosity piqued by stories of mysterious sightings on the island—ghosts, sasquatches, sea serpents—but he was disappointed in the sensational and sometimes disrespectful way they were being retold or revised. Acting on his desire to transform these stories from unsubstantiated gossip to thoroughly researched accounts, Sinn uncovered fascinating details, identified historical inconsistencies, and now retells these encounters as accurately as possible. Investigating 25 spellbinding tales that wind their way from the south end of the island to the north, Sinn explored hauntings in cities, in the forest, and on isolated logging roads. In addition to visiting castles, inns, and cemeteries, he followed the trail of spirits glimpsed on mountaintops, beaches, and water, and visited Heriot Bay Inn on Quadra Island and the Schooner Restaurant in Tofino to personally scrutinize reports of hauntings. Featuring First Nations stories from each of the three Indigenous groups who call Vancouver Island home—the Coast Salish, the Nuu-chah-nulth, and the Kwakwaka’wakw—the book includes an interview with Hereditary Chief James Swan of Ahousaht.
Download or read book The History of the Great War Complete 6 Volume Edition written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The History of the Great War' is a monumental six-volume work that delves into the intricacies and consequences of World War I. Written in a detailed and yet engaging style, Doyle provides a comprehensive overview of the war, from its causes and major battles to the political climate and human impact. Drawing upon his own experience as a doctor in the war, Doyle's account is both emotional and informative, giving readers a vivid portrayal of the conflict. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century literature, Doyle's work stands out as a valuable historical resource for anyone interested in understanding the full scope of this global event. Arthur Conan Doyle's background as a medical doctor, combined with his passion for history and storytelling, likely inspired him to undertake this ambitious project. His meticulous research and compelling narrative make 'The History of the Great War' a must-read for history buffs, scholars, and fans of Doyle's other works. This comprehensive edition offers a wealth of knowledge and perspectives that are sure to enlighten and educate readers on one of the most significant events in modern history.
