BLOODY, BLOODY CHRISTMAS – The Greatest Christmas Thrillers & Mysteries
Victorian and Edwardian Yuletide Mysteries, Ghost Stories, and Gothic SuspenseBy Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Robert Barr, O. Henry, Emmuska Orczy, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, M. R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, Leonard Kip, Lucie E. Jackson, Catherine Crowe, William Douglas O'Connor, John Kendrick Bangs, Louisa M. Alcott, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, James Bowker, Jerome K. Jerome, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood
Length55h 31m
About this audiobook
BLOODY, BLOODY CHRISTMAS gathers the festive season's shadow literature: mysteries, thrillers, Gothic visitations, detective puzzles, and ironic seasonal reversals. Against familiar images of hearth, charity, snow, and reunion, these works disclose concealment, danger, crime, and the uncanny. The volume ranges from sensation fiction and supernatural terror to comic misdirection, moral allegory, and the developing logic of detective narrative, making Christmas not merely a setting but a pressure point for social expectation. Its standout pleasures lie in the collision of Yuletide warmth with locked-room suspense, ghostly recurrence, and startling revelations. Its contributors form an unusually rich cross-section of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American popular literature. Canonical novelists, pioneering women writers, Gothic revivalists, humorists, and architects of modern detective fiction appear together, bringing distinct national, class, religious, and stylistic inflections to seasonal unease. The collection belongs to traditions shaped by Victorian Christmas publishing, the sensation novel, the ghost-story vogue, and the rise of the professional investigator; its varied voices reveal how holiday fiction could entertain while testing domestic ideals and public morality. Recommended for readers of crime fiction, Gothic studies, and Christmas literature alike, this anthology offers an illuminating breadth of forms within one festive, disquieting volume. It invites comparison across eras and modes, rewarding both scholarly inquiry and pleasurable winter reading through the dialogue between mystery, menace, humor, and seasonal ritual.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length55 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MYSTERY & DETECTIVE COLLECTION: The Winning Clue, Mrs. Marden's Ordeal, No Clue & The Man Who Forgot (Thriller Classics Series)
2BLOODY, BLOODY CHRISTMAS – The Greatest Christmas Thrillers & Mysteries
3The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
4The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton)
5Percival Bland's Proxy (R. Austin Freeman)
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6A Christmas Capture (Fred M. White)
7McAllister's Christmas (Arthur Cheney Train)
8I
9II
10III
11IV
12V
13VI
14The Mystery of Room Five (Fred M White)
15A Policeman’s Business (Edgar Wallace)
16Stuffing (Edgar Wallace)
17Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery (Wilkie Collins)
18I
19II
20III
21IV
22V
23VI
24VII
25VIII
26IX
27X
28The Adventure of the Second Swag (Robert Barr)
29An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite (Arthur Conan Doyle)
30A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
31A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy)
32The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
33The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
34What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
35First Night
36Second Night
37Third Night
38Fourth Night
39Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
40The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
41Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
42I
43II
44III
45IV
46The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
47Letter I
48Letter II
49Letter III
50Letter IV
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