GHOULTIDE GREETINGS
HORROR STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS
"Christmas
Spirits: The Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens" by G. W. Thomas
Mugby
Junction: The 1866 Christmas Number
Great ghost stories for the holidays.
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
Influential on Dickens' supernatural works
"The
Adventure of the German Student"
"The
Devil & Tom Walker"
"The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
"Wolfert Webber or Godlen Dreams"
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
(1803-1873)
The man who penned "It was a dark and stormy night..."
"The
Haunted and the Haunters"
"A
Strange Story"
Zanoni
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
(1805-1882)
Another early pioneer
"The Spectre Bride" "A Night In Rome"
ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810-1865)
One of the first feminist ghost writers
"The
Crooked Branch"
"The
Doom of the Griffiths"
"The
Old Nurse's Story"
"Two
Fragments of Ghost Stories"
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)
The author of A Christmas Carol, editor and general promoter of ghost stories
"A
Child's Dream of a Star"
A
Christmas Carol
"The
Goblins Who Stole a Sexton"
"The
Haunted House"
"The
Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain"
"The
Signal Man"
To
Be Read at Dusk"
"To
Taken With a Grain of Salt"
"The
Trial For Murder"
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814-1873)
The man who inspired M. R. James and later was collected and promoted by
him
"An
Account of Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street"
"Carmilla"
"The
Evil Guest"
"The
Familiar"
"Green
Tea"
"Laura
Silver Bell"
"Madam
Crowl's Ghost and The Dead Sexton"
"Mr.
Justice Harbottle"
"The
Murdered Cousin"
"The
Room in the Dragon Volant"
"Schalken
the Painter"
WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS
(1824-1889)
Friend of Dickens, collaborator and contributor to Holiday Numbers
"The
Haunted Hotel"
"Miss
Jeromette and the Clergyman"
MRS. CRAIK (aka DINAH
MARIA MULOCK) (1828-1887)
Early woman ghost story writer
"The Last House in C------ Street"
MARGARET OLIPHANT (1828-1897)
Such a fine hand with a tale
"The
Library Window"
"The
Open Door"
"The
Portrait"
"The
Secret Chamber"
AMELIA B. EDWARDS (1831-1892)
Contributor to Dickens' Holiday Numbers
"The
Four-Fifteen Express"
"How
The Third Floor Knew the Potteries"
"The
No. 5 Branch Line: The Engineer"
"The
Phantom Coach"
"A
Service of Danger"
MISS MARY BRADDON (1837-1915)
Wrote many Mystery stories too
"At
Chrighton Abbey"
"The
Cold Embrace"
"Eveline's
Visitant"
"The
Good Lady Ducayne"
"The
Shadow in the Corner"
RHODA BROUGHTON (1840-1920)
J. Sheridan le Fanu's niece
"Behold!
It Was a Dream"
"The
Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth"
"Under
the Cloak"
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?)
The old sour-puss
Can
Such Things Be?
"The
Damned Thing"
"The
Haunted Valley"
"A
Horseman in the Sky"
"The
Isle of the Pines"
"A
Jug of Sirup"
"The
Middle Toe of the Right Foot"
"An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"One
Summer Night"
Present
at the Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
MARY WILKINS-FREEMAN
(1852-1930)
Another Feminist ghost story writer, American
"Luella
Miller"
"The
Shadows on the Wall"
"The
Southwest Chamber"
"A
Symphony in Lavender"
"The
Twelfth Guest"
BERNARD CAPES (1854-1918)
Little remembered today outside of Australia
"A
Ghost-Child"
"An
Eddy on the Floor"
"The
Marble Hands"
"The
Thing in the Forest"
"The
Widow's Clock"
FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD
(1854-1909)
American, but wrote like a Brit
"The
Doll's Ghost"
"For
the Blood is the Life"
"The
Screaming Skull"
"The
Upper Berth"
GERTRUDE ATHERTON (1857-1948)
Has become something oa sensation in the last quarter century
"The
Bell in the Fog"
"The
Dead & the Countess"
"Death
& the Woman"
"The
Greatest Good of the Greatest Number"
"The
Sacrifical Altar"
"The
Striding-Place"
"What
Dreams May Come"
EDITH NESBIT (1858-1924)
Not just a children's writer
"John
Charrington's Wedding"
"Man-size
in Marble"
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)
Wrote some great horror tales and believed in psychic phenomenon
Captain
of the Polestar And Other Stories
"The
Leather Funnel"
"The
Mystery of Cloomber"
"The
Parasite"
Tales
of Terror and Mystery
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
(1860-1935)
Another feminist ghost story writer
"The
Giant Wistaria"
"The
Yellow Wall-Paper"
A. C. BENSON (1862-1925)
Eldest of the Benson trio
M. R. JAMES (1862-1936)
Wrote an annual ghost story for his friends at Eaton
Ghost
Stories of an Antiquary
Ghost
Stories of An Antiquary 2
"A
Warning to the Curious"
EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)
Probably the best of the feminist ghost story writers
"Afterward"
"The
Angel at the Grave"
"The
Eyes"
"The
House of the Dead Hand"
"The
Lady's Maid's Bell"
EDWARD FREDERIC BENSON
(1867-1940)
The middle Benson Boy
"Between
the Lights"
"The
Blotting Book"
"The
China Bowl"
"Mrs.
Amworth"
"Outside
the Door"
"The
Room in the Tower"
"And
the Dead Spake--"
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD (1869-1925)
BBC's "Ghost Man", Blackwood specialized in psychic phenomenon tales
"Accessory
Before the Fact"
"Ancient
Lights"
"Ancient
Sorceries"
"The
Egyptian Hornet"
"The
Empty House"
"Glamour
of the Snow"
"The
House of the Past"
"Keeping
His Promise"
"The
Wendigo"
"The
Willows"
Other Links
WACKY
ANNE'S CHRISTMAS LIBRARY
CHRISTMAS
GHOST STORIES BY TOM SLEMEN\
G. W. Thomas Presents
GHOULTIDE GREETINGS
Horror Stories for Christmas
Double Dragon's ebook version still available
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