Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Victorian and Edwardian Fireside Tales of Haunted Holidays and Winter DreadBy Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Catherine Crowe, Lucie E. Jackson, William Douglas O'Connor, Frank R. Stockton, James Bowker, Grant Allen, Louisa M. Alcott, Florence Marryat, Katherine Rickford, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine L. Pirkis, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood
Length44h 35m
About this audiobook
Christmas After Dark gathers thirty-six holiday ghost stories and supernatural thrillers in a compelling counterpoint to the season's customary warmth and domestic cheer. Ranging from Gothic hauntings and moral fables to psychological unease, comic macabre, and uncanny adventure, the volume reveals Christmas as a uniquely charged setting for revelations, returns, and disturbances of the familiar. Its most memorable pieces set spectral visitations amid hearths, snowbound houses, ancestral secrets, and festive gatherings, demonstrating the remarkable elasticity of holiday supernatural fiction. The contributors form an expansive nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American tradition, bringing together major practitioners of detective fiction, the ghost story, children's fantasy, sensation fiction, realism, and literary Gothic. Their varied careers illuminate the period's fascination with spiritualism, medieval revivalism, domestic anxiety, imperial encounter, and the blurred boundary between rational explanation and supernatural possibility. Across these voices, Christmas becomes both a cultural ritual and a literary threshold, where communal celebration exposes private grief, ethical obligation, social tensions, and buried histories. An excellent choice for readers, students, and scholars of Gothic and seasonal literature, Christmas After Dark offers an unusually rich survey of a durable tradition. The collection invites comparison across styles, national contexts, and narrative strategies, while rewarding readers with suspense, wit, pathos, and imaginative breadth. It is a valuable volume for discovering how many different shadows can gather around the Christmas fire.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (13)
Includes Amazon
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length44 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tales of the Old London Slum – Complete Collection: 4 Novels & 30+ Short Stories (A Child of the Jago, To London Town, Cunning Murrell, The Hole in the Wall, Tales of Mean Streets, Old Essex…)
2The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
3What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
4First Night
5Second Night
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6Third Night
7Fourth Night
8Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
9The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
10Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
11I
12II
13III
14IV
15The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
16Letter I
17Letter II
18Letter III
19Letter IV
20The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
21The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)
22Chapter I. The Gift Bestowed
23Chapter II. The Gift Diffused
24Chapter III. The Gift Reversed
25Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)
26Chapter I. To Be Taken Immediately
27Chapter II. Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time
28Chapter III. To Be Taken at the Dinner-Table
29Chapter IV. Not to Be Taken for Granted
30Chapter V. To Be Taken in Water
31Chapter VI. To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt
32Chapter VII. To Be Taken and Tried
33Chapter VIII. To Be Taken for Life
34The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
35Stave I. Marley's Ghost
36Stave II. The First of the Three Spirits
37Stave III. The Second of the Three Spirits
38Stave IV. The Last of the Spirits
39Stave V. The End of It
40The Ghost’s Touch (Fergus Hume)
41Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)
42The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
43Chapter I
44Chapter II
45Chapter III
46Chapter IV
47Chapter V
48Chapter VI
49A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)
50Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe)
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