Random Horror Friday Frights
LOT NO. 249 (2023)
Part of the BBC's excellent long running series "A Ghost Story For Christmas." I grew up on this stuff, love that it still continues!
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Raise a glass to the Yuletide,
O blessed time of year,
when the revels of all mortal men
are tinged with ghostly fear.
Gathered round the blazing hearth,
all of you in festive cheer,
say a prayer to guard your soul
from the spirits drawing near.
#Christmaspoem #Yule #Christmasghosts
A floorwalker offers a variety of ghosts for sale to a frightened customer in spats, overcoat and top hat.
The Christmas Ghost Department at the Something-for-All-Stores, 1927
#ChristmasGhosts
A solstice #ghostpond haunts a field with a forgotten name. As the veil thins water rises through soil warmed by the winter sun and the portal opens. Life stirs waiting for the light #solstice #christmasghosts
St Thomas’s church, Harty, Isle of Sheppey.
Sheppey marshes
Would you spend the night all alone in a tiny ancient church with no water or electricity, out on the marshes on the longest night of the year? Well, in the interests of my next book, that’s what I’m doing tonight. Updates to follow! #WinterSolstice #ChristmasGhosts #naturewriting #IsleofSheppey
Here is an interview I did with Doug Gibson of Plan 9 Crunch about Christmas ghost stories.
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#ChristmasGhosts #Ghoststories #VictorianGhostStories #EdwardianGhostStories #ShortStories #BookSky
![A Christmas Ghost on Tap.
[b&w illustration of a man, his hair standing up, descending a staircase with a candle, the corded and tasseled ties of his robe thumping on the stairs behind him]
BENJAMIN BINKS (suffering from a surfeit of ghost-stories, and listening to the tap, tap of the tassels of his dressing-gown as they touch the stairs)
Good heavens! I'm certain I can hear footsteps folloing me downstairs.
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A Christmas Ghost on Tap. [b&w illustration of a man, his hair standing up, descending a staircase with a candle, the corded and tasseled ties of his robe thumping on the stairs behind him] BENJAMIN BINKS (suffering from a surfeit of ghost-stories, and listening to the tap, tap of the tassels of his dressing-gown as they touch the stairs) Good heavens! I'm certain I can hear footsteps folloing me downstairs. DRAWN BY H. RADCLIFFE WILSON.
"A Christmas Ghost on Tap" from The Sketch Christmas Number, 1908. #ChristmasGhosts
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To get myself into the Christmas spirit I treated myself to a cute festive Matlock Ghost for my collection. @matlockghost.bsky.social I even got a little freebie baby ghost. ❤️
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Merry Christmas! Meet The Paraclauses! They are 2 of the investigators featured in the new book "Haunting of Hunt Memorial Library" Join the "HUNT" and pre-order: tinyurl.com/5dpff3mw OR put the Paperback on your list for JAN 1st, 2026!!
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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.
#ChristmasGhosts
#christmasghoststories
Marvellous retelling of three ghost stories in Christmas Gothic at The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (Mill Theatre) last night. Well done Dyad Productions for a fabulously spooky performance! We loved it. 😍
#theatre #ghoststories #christmasghosts
Whose bones are hidden in the lightning struck tower?
After a storm damages the tower at the heart of #MarquessHouse, Perdita and Piper discover a hidden reliquary connected to images in the chapel, Unexpectedly, they are drawn into a quest to reunite two lost Tudor sisters.
#ChristmasGhosts
I don't know who needs to hear this, but Scrooge was visited by FOUR ghosts (five in the far superior Muppet Christmas Carol). Everyone forgets Jacob Marley.
#ChristmasGhosts
II. Walk with us awhile through the month of NOVEMBER and DECEMBER as the long forgotten tales of those folk who once lay claim to the unquiet streets of YORK will be revealed.
We rendezvous upon the SEVENTH evening hour.
#PoliteTourist #LadyBrigante #ChristmasGhosts #StillSleuthing 🔍
If windows could talk?
Would they reveal the happenstance of a young woman intent on a mysterious rendezvous who walks into the dark night never to return?
YOU WALK. WE TALK.
The Box Office Awaits!
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I enjoy festive ghost stories all year round. I edited this illustrated collection of classic & obscure stories a few years ago. Available in paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
www.amazon.com/Ghost-Storie... #Christmasghoststories #Christmasghosts #Books #Paperbacks #KIndle
www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Christmas-Charlotte-Riddell/dp/B0CL6YN5LR
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www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Christmas-Charles-Dickens/dp/B0BHMPR3RY
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With February almost upon us, I'm surprised that my two volumes of vintage Christmas ghost stories are still selling strongly. Amazon links in the comments.
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POV: You investigate a strange signal and awake on a distant world ... Mortis.
#StarWars #CloneWars #ThreeSpirits #ChristmasGhosts #AChristmasCarol #MortisGods #JacobMarley #EbenezerScrooge #AnakinSkywalker #Ahsoka #Kenobi #Mortis
#amwatching #christmascomedy #christmasghosts
I've been watching ever since it came out. idk why LOL It's a cute movie and always free on #tubi
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A black and white photograph of a white man in formal dresses with a ghostly woman’s veiled face hovering over him. This is an old photo, used to promote my blog, with substack and ‘ Three Ghosts at Yuletide’ printed over it.
Every month I share a curated list of what I’m reading, watching, listening to with my newsletter subscribers. Read the latest, all about Yuletide Ghost stories #GhostStory #ChristmasGhosts #hauntology #WomenInHorror #FolkHorror
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Scrooged on BluRay!
Scrooged! [1988]
Merry Christmas!
#bluray #christmasmovies #christmas #scrooge
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Since Christmas time is in a few days now, I want to share you my Christmas album I've made in 2022.
Link: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#Christmasmusic #achristmascarol #christmasghosts #musical #musician #music #tgvenom #santaclaus #santa #happyholidays #edm #musicalscore
Here is The Hauntings of Cheshire - a Christmas Special episode of the podcast! A series of fireside tales of lore and the supernatural from across Cheshire! Hope you enjoy it! #cheshire #christmasghosts #hauntings thelocalmythstorian.com/podcast
Here is a review of two Christmas anthologies I have edited.
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#Christmasbooks #Books #BookSky💙📚 #Christmas #Ghosts #Supernatural #GhoststoriesforChristmas #ChristmasGhosts
