Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales
Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories, Gothic Hauntings, and Winter Hearthside HorrorsBy M. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, 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
Length43h 53m
About this audiobook
Spooky Christmas gathers more than thirty supernatural and eerie tales in which the festive season becomes a threshold between domestic warmth and spectral disturbance. Ranging from Gothic apparitions, antiquarian hauntings, and moral fables to comic macabre sketches and psychologically unsettled narratives, the volume reveals Christmas as a rich imaginative setting for darkness as well as consolation. Its striking pieces animate old houses, winter roads, family gatherings, and inherited secrets, placing seasonal ritual in productive tension with dread. The contributors span the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, bringing together major practitioners of the Victorian ghost story, Gothic romance, sensation fiction, popular tale, and supernatural satire. Their varied careers reflect a period in which magazine culture, holiday annuals, and circulating libraries made short fiction a central forum for exploring faith, bereavement, class, colonial encounter, folklore, and modern uncertainty. Voices associated with realism, fantasy, detective fiction, and the uncanny collectively demonstrate how the Christmas tale evolved beyond sentimentality into a flexible literary form. This anthology is especially recommended for readers of Gothic and Victorian literature, as well as for anyone seeking a more shadowed seasonal reading experience. It offers an unusually broad opportunity to compare styles, assumptions, and narrative effects within one volume. Educational and engrossing alike, Spooky Christmas invites readers to trace an ongoing dialogue between comfort and terror, tradition and disruption, laughter and the supernatural.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length43 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 17, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Man Who Forgot Christmas (Annotated)
2Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales
3The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
4What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
5First Night
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6Second Night
7Third Night
8Fourth Night
9Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
10The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
11Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
12I
13II
14III
15IV
16The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
17Letter I
18Letter II
19Letter III
20Letter IV
21The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
22The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)
23Chapter I. The Gift Bestowed
24Chapter II. The Gift Diffused
25Chapter III. The Gift Reversed
26Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)
27Chapter I. To Be Taken Immediately
28Chapter II. Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time
29Chapter III. To Be Taken at the Dinner-Table
30Chapter IV. Not to Be Taken for Granted
31Chapter V. To Be Taken in Water
32Chapter VI. To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt
33Chapter VII. To Be Taken and Tried
34Chapter VIII. To Be Taken for Life
35The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
36Stave I. Marley's Ghost
37Stave II. The First of the Three Spirits
38Stave III. The Second of the Three Spirits
39Stave IV. The Last of the Spirits
40Stave V. The End of It
41The Ghost’s Touch (Fergus Hume)
42Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)
43The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
44Chapter I
45Chapter II
46Chapter III
47Chapter IV
48Chapter V
49Chapter VI
50A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)
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