Christmas Ghost Stories

The Victorians did not gather at Christmas in spite of the dark. They gathered to tell it back.

When frost gathered on the windowpanes and darkness fell early, they shared tales of specters, curses, and restless spirits. The masters understood something we have forgotten: that true terror does not announce itself with gore or shock, but creeps in through the familiar made wrong. A child's voice where no child should be. A room numbered impossibly. An invisible hand that grows bolder in the dark.

Christmas Ghost Stories gathers the finest seasonal hauntings of the Victorian age across eight classic tales: the atmospheric build, the shiver of unease, the descent into uncanny territory, and the final exhale as the fire burns low.

This richly illustrated collection brings together essential tales from Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and their contemporaries.

The fire burns bright. The shadows gather. And the dead, as always, have much to say.