Fear Stalks on Christmas Eve - Ghost Stories, Supernatural Mysteries & Gothic Horrors for Brave Souls
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Christmas Ghost TalesBy Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Thomas Hardy, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, 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 36m
About this audiobook
Fear Stalks on Christmas Eve gathers thirty writers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a seasonally charged survey of the ghost story, supernatural mystery, and Gothic horror. Its Christmas setting turns domestic warmth, ritual, and winter darkness into sites of unease, while its forms range from spectral anecdotes and antiquarian hauntings to psychological terror, comic macabre fiction, detective-inflected enigmas, and moral fables. Tales of uncanny visitors, cursed houses, revenants, and inexplicable disturbances reveal how the festive threshold between past and present could invite both consolation and dread. The volume brings together major practitioners of Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction alongside important, now less frequently read contributors to Gothic and supernatural writing. These varied voices participate in traditions shaped by the Christmas ghost-story custom, sensation fiction, folklore, spiritualism, imperial anxieties, and the developing modern taste for psychological ambiguity. Writers associated with realism, children's literature, detective fiction, satire, romance, and the weird tale collectively demonstrate that supernatural fiction was never a narrow genre, but a capacious medium for examining memory, guilt, class, gender, faith, and social change. Ideal for readers of classic horror and students of nineteenth-century literature alike, this anthology offers an unusually broad encounter with the Christmas uncanny. Its juxtaposition of celebrated and rediscovered works encourages comparison across styles, periods, and cultural assumptions. Read together, these stories provide both festive chills and a rich education in the evolving language of Gothic imagination.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length44 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1MYSTERY & REVENGE Collection - The Cold Blooded Vengeance Thrillers: 10 Books in One Volume (Annotated)
2The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
3What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
4Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
5The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
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6Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
7The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
8The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
9The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)
10Chapter I. The Gift Bestowed
11Chapter II. The Gift Diffused
12Chapter III. The Gift Reversed
13Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)
14Chapter I. To Be Taken Immediately
15Chapter II. Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time
16Chapter III. To Be Taken at the Dinner-Table
17Chapter IV. Not to Be Taken for Granted
18Chapter V. To Be Taken in Water
19Chapter VI. To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt
20Chapter VII. To Be Taken and Tried
21Chapter VIII. To Be Taken for Life
22The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
23The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
24The Ghost’s Touch (Fergus Hume)
25Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)
26The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
27A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)
28Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 1)
29Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 2)
30Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 3)
31The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O’Connor)
32Thurlow’s Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)
33The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs)
34The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott)
35Chapter I. Dramatis Personae
36Chapter II. Byplay
37Chapter III. Who Was It?
38Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks
39Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe
40Chapter VI. Miracles
41Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel
42Chapter VIII. Jasper
43Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)
44Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen)
45The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker)
46Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)
47The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)
48Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)
49The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens)
50The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie)
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