Winter Ghosts: Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas – Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and others

“As for me, I know very well that when I read him of a dark night, I am obliged to creep to bed without shutting ny book, and without daring to look behind me.” (Quotation from “The Dead Man’s Story”, pos. 1056)

“We talked on an extraordinary variety of subjects, I distinctly recollect a long argument on mushrooms-mushrooms, murders, racing, cholera; from cholera we came to sudden death, from sudden death to churchyards, and from churchyards, it was naturally but a step to ghosts.” (Quotation from “Number Ninety”, pos. 3878)

Content

The Phantom Coach by Amelia B Edwards

The Ghost of Christmas Eve by J.M. Barrie

The Governess’s Story by Amyas Northcote

The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens

The Dead Man’s Story by James Hain Friswell

Bone to His Bone by E.G. Swain

Jerry Bundler by W.W. Jacobs

The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

Thurlow’s Christmas Story by John Kendrick Bangs

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

The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin

Mustapha by S. Baring-Gould

Wolverden Tower by Grant Allen

Number Ninety by B.M. Croker

The Great Staircase at Landover Hall by Frank Stockton

A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell

What Was He? by Theo Gift

The Brazen Cross by H.B. Marriott Watson

The Beeston Ghost by John Swaffield Orton

Theme and Genre

A collection of classic Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories about inexplicable, supernatural, spooky experiences, written by different authors.

Conclusion

A perfect collection for dark winter evenings, giving you spine-tingling feelings. Very different stories and different writing styles make this book a thrilling, enjoyable reading.