The Dead Rise Again on Christmas Eve
Victorian and Edwardian Christmas Ghost Stories of Hauntings, Revelations, and Uncanny WonderBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Nikolai Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Corelli, M. R. James, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Grant Allen, Louisa M. Alcott, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Algernon Blackwood, E. F. Benson
Length49h 49m
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The Dead Rise Again on Christmas Eve gathers Gothic, supernatural, and macabre fiction around the uneasy threshold of the festive season, where domestic warmth gives way to haunting, revenance, and moral reckoning. Its range extends from antiquarian ghost story and psychological terror to satire, sensation fiction, folklore, and darkly comic fantasy. Christmas becomes not merely a setting but a charged cultural ritual: a season in which memory, guilt, inheritance, and the dead press insistently upon the living. Standout narratives of spectral visitation, cursed households, and uncanny returns reveal how holiday fellowship can coexist with dread. The volume draws together major British, Irish, American, and European practitioners whose work helped shape nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Their collective backgrounds encompass Victorian realism, the Gothic revival, fin-de-siècle decadence, sensation writing, folklore scholarship, children's fantasy, and the modern literary ghost story. Across these distinct traditions, the contributors illuminate shared anxieties about faith, class, family, empire, mortality, and the unstable boundary between rational explanation and supernatural belief. Recommended for students and general readers of Gothic literature alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich encounter with Christmas's darker imaginative history. Its varied forms and national perspectives make it valuable both as an introduction to supernatural fiction and as a study in the enduring dialogue between celebration, storytelling, and fear.
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GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length49 hrs 49 mins
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Publish dateNov 22, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Future Foretold: 3 Classic Books of Occult Prophecy
2The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli) (pt. 1)
3The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli) (pt. 2)
4The Night of Christmas Eve (Nikolai Gogol)
5The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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6What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
7Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
8The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
9Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
10The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
11The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
12The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
13The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
14Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
15Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
16Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) (pt. 3)
17The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 1)
18The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) (pt. 2)
19The Ghost’s Touch (Fergus Hume)
20Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)
21The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
22A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)
23Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 1)
24Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 2)
25Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) (pt. 3)
26The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O’Connor)
27Thurlow’s Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)
28The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs)
29The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) (pt. 1)
30The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) (pt. 2)
31Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)
32Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen)
33The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker)
34Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)
35The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)
36Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)
37The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens)
38The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie)
39The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
40Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald)
41The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy)
42Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker)
43At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
44The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis)
45Between the Lights (E. F. Benson)
46Transition (Algernon Blackwood)
47The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood)
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