Dark Christmas Collection: 30+ Supernatural Thrillers, Mysteries & Ghost Stories
Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories, Mysteries, and Gothic Holiday ThrillsBy Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Saki, Fergus Hume, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, Leonard Kip, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis
Length44h 34m
About this audiobook
Dark Christmas Collection gathers more than thirty supernatural thrillers, mysteries, and ghost stories in which the season of hospitality, memory, and domestic ritual becomes a threshold to the uncanny. Moving between Gothic terror, detective fiction, psychological suspense, comic fantasy, and the fireside tale, the volume situates Christmas within a rich nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary tradition. Haunted houses, spectral visitations, family secrets, and winter landscapes give the collection its distinctive atmosphere, while its standout narratives test whether festive warmth can contain the shadows it briefly illuminates. Its contributors form a remarkably broad Anglo-American assemblage of Victorian, Edwardian, and fin-de-siècle writers, including major novelists, pioneering women authors, humorists, popular mystery practitioners, and influential architects of the literary ghost story. Their combined work reflects the period's fascination with spiritualism, sensation fiction, imperial anxiety, rational detection, and the revival of folklore. These varied voices transform Christmas from a merely sentimental occasion into a cultural arena where modern skepticism encounters older fears, and where social conventions may be exposed, inverted, or haunted. Recommended for readers and students of Gothic literature, seasonal fiction, and popular narrative, this anthology offers an unusually capacious survey of supernatural storytelling. Its diversity of forms and sensibilities invites comparison across generations, genres, and national traditions, fostering a rewarding dialogue between festive custom and imaginative disturbance.
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Rating★★★★ 4.1 (18)
Includes Amazon
GenreHorror, Fantasy
Length44 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE IVORY SNUFF BOX (Mystery Thriller) (Annotated)
2Dark Christmas Collection: 30+ Supernatural Thrillers, Mysteries & Ghost Stories
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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