MERRY EERIE CHRISTMAS - Ghost Stories, Supernatural Mysteries & Gothic Horrors
Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories for the Christmas FiresideBy 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 34m
About this audiobook
MERRY EERIE CHRISTMAS gathers ghost stories, supernatural mysteries, and Gothic horrors into a festive counter-tradition in which winter's warmth is shadowed by dread. Its range extends from antiquarian hauntings and spectral visitations to psychological unease, comic macabre, domestic terror, and mysteries poised between rational explanation and the uncanny. Christmas rituals, darkened rooms, old houses, and tales told by the fire become instruments of suspense, demonstrating how the season's intimacy can intensify Gothic disturbance. The volume draws together major Victorian, Edwardian, American, Scottish, Irish, and British voices whose work helped establish the supernatural tale as a flexible popular and literary form. These writers variously engage the Gothic revival, sensation fiction, imperial anxieties, folklore, spiritualism, detective narrative, and the periodical culture that made short fiction widely accessible. Their differing social settings and aesthetic temperaments ensure that the collection presents the uncanny not as a single tradition but as a rich field of competing explanations, fears, and pleasures. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers of Gothic literature, MERRY EERIE CHRISTMAS offers an unusually broad encounter with the seasonal ghost-story tradition. Read as a whole, it illuminates the dialogue between humor and horror, folklore and modernity, consolation and dread. Its multiplicity of voices makes it both an inviting fireside anthology and a valuable guide to the historical breadth of supernatural fiction.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (30)
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GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length44 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Emily Brontë (Annotated)
2MERRY EERIE CHRISTMAS - Ghost Stories, Supernatural Mysteries & Gothic Horrors
3The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
4What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
5Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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6The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
7Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
8The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
9The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
10The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
11The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
12Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
13Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
14Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 3)
15The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
16The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
17The Ghost’s Touch (Fergus Hume)
18Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)
19The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
20A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)
21Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 1)
22Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 2)
23Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 3)
24The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O’Connor)
25Thurlow’s Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)
26The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs)
27The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) (pt. 1)
28The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) (pt. 2)
29Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)
30Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen)
31The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker)
32Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)
33The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)
34Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)
35The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens)
36The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie)
37The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
38Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald)
39The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy)
40Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker)
41At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
42The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis)
43Between the Lights (E. F. Benson)
44Transition (Algernon Blackwood)
45The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood)
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