@bunnydarke.bsky.social Another Christmas ghost story, [Christmas Ghost Stories] Christmas 2025 - Slay Bells Ring... Are You Listening? #christmasGhostStories
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@ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social Happy Holidays! Sharing my annual Christmas Eve podcast for anyone else looking for one more Christmas ghost: [Christmas Ghost Stories] Christmas 2025 - Slay Bells Ring... Are You Listening? #christmasGhostStories
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Every Xmas Eve I never miss @robertlloydparry tributes to M R James. Tonight's tale was An Episode of Cathedral History.

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By 1865, the frame story in the mysterious Christmas box and What Came Out of It, published in the Birmingham Daily Post, purported to have an inventor present a magical box which could produce stories and done so for the famous magazines like Dickens. all the year round and once a week. The Birmingham editor challenged the box to tell a story with a murder, something horrible, you know, appropriate to Christmas. The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered. "Forgotten Tradition: Chilling Christmas Ghosts." December 10, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n6oSoEatJQ

the frame story in "The Mysterious Christmas Box, and What Came Out of It," an anthology that appeared in the Christmas Day 1865 Birmingham Daily Post. The note announced the arrival of an Inventor presenting the titular object to an Editor, a magical box could produce stories or poems upon request and that had done so for All the Year Round, Chambers' Jour-nal, and Once a Week, among others. The Editor challenged the Box to create poems and stories in various styles, including the comic style of Tom Hood, a mystery with a happy ending, a murder: "Something horrible, you know - appropriate to Christmas" Philippo, Christopher K. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories Volume Five. Valancourt Books, 2021.

Screencap from https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheHistoryGuy showing The History Guy in a colorful suit in a dark room with the caption: Watch Mojo is a No No Stealing from other creators is worse than AI. November 3

It *would* be a good video on #ChristmasGhostStories, if only The History Guy had cited the sources he used. To omit his sources in a video he had offered early for his paid Patreon supporters is especially !@#$%^. E.g. one of a number of instances from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social

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An old man with a cane in a chair is silhouetted against the fire. He is telling a Christmas ghost story to a group of adults and children while a giant ghostly knight leans on the mantlepiece, listening.

The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930
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A Christmas Wish and The Christmas Ghosts of Rothery Hall. Historical Christmas Ghost Stories. Find them at Amazon. #cozymysteries #christmasghoststories #christmasreads #books #historicalmysteries #fiction

Walter De La Mare - Bad Company Does repentence and second thought allow one final chance to put right what in flesh we put wrong?

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A.M. Burridge - Smee In the second Christmas Ghost story we enjoy a game of 'Smee'. Twelve friends playing a hide-and-seek type game inside a huge, dark house, and then suddenly – there is this mysterious thirteenth player that hides with them! Alfred McLelland Burrage (1889–1956) was a British writer. He was noted in his time as an author of fiction for boys which he published under the pseudonym Frank Lelland, including a popular series called "Tufty". After his death, however, Burrage became best known for his ghost stories. 'Smee' takes place one Christmas and is about a game with more than an opportunity for another player. A hide and seek, where the hidden is often so for a reason.

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Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber Christmas Ghost stories kick off with the classic and underrated Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber The Keepsake Stories is the title given to three short stories by Sir Walter Scott which appeared in The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX, a literary annual published for Christmas 1828. The short stories were entitled "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror", "The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Sacque", and "Death of the Laird's Jock". Charles Heath had originally planned for Scott to become the editor of the annual. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, and The Bride of Lammermoor, along with the narrative poems Marmion and The Lady of the Lake. He greatly influenced European and American literature. As an advocate and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire.

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A second #Christmas reading in the #boughsofholly series, this time with A Winter Came Quickly from the Devilish Preludes anthology.
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If you're looking for last-minute gift ideas for a horror-loving bookworm, our directory of book recs has over 50 titles! 🪱

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A friendly reminder that our online talk on Christmas Ghost Stories is TONIGHT, December 15 at 6:30 ET! Get tickets at the link and register today!
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Realised I have published quite a few #Christmas stories over the years, so decided to record a few readings. First up, Holly Trinity's Victorian ghost story The Burning Bride. Link in comments.
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Why were the Victorians so obsessed with ghosts at Christmastime? Come to our online talk tomorrow (December 15 at 6:30 ET) to find out!
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Join us 12/15 at 6:30 ET for an online talk on Christmas Ghost Stories!
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CHRISTMAS GHOSTS — INTERVIEW WITH SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The theory that there is any connection between the mid-winter season and manifestations of the Occult is not endorsed by authorities on spiritualism. Discussing the question with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I found him ready to admit that the winter solstice might have something to do with folk-lore tales of magic and miracles connected in the popular mind with the Christmas season. "The winter solstice and the dark change which comes over material nature may have something to do with such belief," he said, "but, on the other hand, there is no proof that it has. At least, I have never heard of it. On the contrary, I should have expected magic to be more in the air at midsummer—at the summer solstice. If there is any connection at all between seasonal changes and popular belief in magic, I should expect to find it in midsummer night dreams rather than in mid-winter. On the other hand, Walpurgis Night, the time of the witches' revels, according to German legend, occurs, I think, on the night between April 30 and May Day. "The question, however, has nothing to do with spiritualism. It is a matter of comparative religion. It is certainly a survival of very much older cults than the Christian. The heralding angels are only a Christian version of beliefs which go back very much further. The mid-summer revels, I believe, date at any rate as far back as the worship of Baal. The subject, however, does not come within my province as a spiritualist." I asked Sir Arthur whether as a spiritualist he had more success at certain seasons. He replied: "Not at all. I don't find that psychic phenomena are affected by seasonal changes or that there is more difficulty in communicating at one time than another.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Christmas Ghosts, 1919.

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Join us on 12/15 at 6:30 ET for Christmas Ghost Stories! Folklorists Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman trace the history of the winter ghost story, sharing tales and exploring how it became tied to Christmas.
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A sentence to chill the blood, 'A new Mark Gatiss ghost story for Christmas'. The entire canon of short stories at his disposal to make a successfully scary adaptation but he always manages to botch the job. For the love of Christ please let someone else try.
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Really looking forward to this! Get your tickets now!

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Hurrah! I received this beautiful book today, it really is a beautiful thing.
Illusions of Presence - Lost Christmas Ghost Stories edited by @johnnymains.co.uk
I don't think I will be able to wait until Christmas to get started.

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Dark gates in the snow

Passed the 2500 word mark on my Christmas Ghost Story. Looks like I’ll easily make the deadline. This one contains another one of my creepy children. #horror #shortstory #christmasghoststories

An old man crafting ghost stories

Sunday’s weather in San Diego is unusually cool & misty, perfect for the Christmas ghost story I’m writing. It takes place at an old snowed-in academy and may involve a creepy little child. 👻💀#horror #Ghost #ghoststory #christmasghost #christmasghoststories

ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has a cover!!

Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!

Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!

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It must be the stifling heat that is causing an unseasonal spike in sales of my two volumes of Victorian & Edwardian Christmas ghost stories. If you need a chill, they are available in paperback & Kindle www.amazon.com/Ghost-Storie...
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Come and see my wife and I at Midsummer Scream 2025!
We will have Christmas Spirits Volume 2 for your spine tingling edification! All new Holiday Ghost stories and all new art from so many talented ghouls!
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