Mysteries for Christmas - Boxed Set
Victorian and Edwardian Holiday Ghost Tales, Locked-Room Puzzles, and Gothic CrimeBy Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, Marie Corelli, Nikolai Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas O'Connor, Grant Allen, Louisa M. Alcott, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Fred M. White, Arthur Cheney Train, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Hugh Walpole
Length72h 51m
About this audiobook
Mysteries for Christmas—Boxed Set gathers a capacious tradition of seasonal suspense, where domestic festivity, wintry isolation, supernatural unease, and rational detection meet. Its selections range from Gothic hauntings and sensation fiction to comic fantasy, locked-room puzzles, crime narratives, and psychologically shaded tales. Christmas serves not merely as décor but as a literary pressure point: a season of hospitality and memory in which concealed crimes, family tensions, and spectral visitations acquire heightened force. Standout modes include the fireside ghost story, the country-house mystery, and the urban tale of deception. The volume brings together British, Irish, American, and continental voices whose careers helped shape nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular literature. These writers collectively illuminate the passage from Romantic and Gothic inheritance through Victorian sensation and imperial-era detective fiction to the more playful, self-conscious mysteries of the interwar imagination. Their differing social settings and formal preferences—moral allegory, satire, melodrama, procedural inference, and supernatural suggestion—make the collection a rich record of how mystery adapted to changing reading publics and cultural anxieties. Recommended for students, genre enthusiasts, and seasonal readers alike, this boxed set offers an unusually broad encounter with mystery's many traditions. Its juxtaposed narratives invite comparison across styles, nations, and historical moments, revealing how Christmas can shelter both comfort and dread. Readers will find educational depth, abundant entertainment, and a compelling dialogue between supernatural wonder and deductive reason.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length72 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Detective Ashton-Kirk' Cases (Complete 4 Book Collection) (Annotated)
2Tarnhelm or, The Death of My Uncle Robert (Hugh Walpole)
3The Snow (Hugh Walpole)
4The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli) (pt. 1)
5The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli) (pt. 2)
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6The Night of Christmas Eve (Nikolai Gogol)
7The Chopham Affair (Edgar Wallace))
8The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
9The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton)
10Percival Bland's Proxy (R. Austin Freeman)
11A Christmas Capture (Fred M. White)
12McAllister's Christmas (Arthur Cheney Train)
13The Mystery of Room Five (Fred M White)
14A Policeman’s Business (Edgar Wallace)
15Stuffing (Edgar Wallace)
16Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery (Wilkie Collins) (pt. 1)
17Mr Wray’s Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery (Wilkie Collins) (pt. 2)
18The Adventure of the Second Swag (Robert Barr)
19An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture on Dynamite (Arthur Conan Doyle)
20A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry)
21A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy)
22The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy)
23The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
24What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
25Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
26The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
27Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
28The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
29The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
30The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
31The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
32Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
33Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
34Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 3)
35The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
36The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
37The Ghost’s Touch (Fergus Hume)
38Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)
39The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
40Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 1)
41Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 2)
42Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 3)
43The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O’Connor)
44Thurlow’s Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)
45The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs)
46The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) (pt. 1)
47The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) (pt. 2)
48Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)
49Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen)
50Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)
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