Elizabeth's scheme to raise money for the children's wing of a local hospital--a plan involving the appearance of actor Beau Dillon--is complicated by her sister's impersonation of Elizabeth and by Christmas ghosts.
Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume.
In both crowded urban scenes and intimate portraits of familiar characters, we gain a sense of the timeless humanity of the tale and perhaps catch a glimpse of ourselves.
Every family has its ghosts.
This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre.
Six-year-old Jimpsey discovers a ghost in his barn on Christmas Eve and finds that they are not such bad creatures after all.
Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol."
This volume also features a new introduction by Prof. Simon Stern. "Before me, with the sickly light from the lantern shining right down upon it, was--a cloven hoof!
Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings Mary Beth Crain ... Emily was “Ellis Bell,” Charlotte, “Currer Bell,” and Anne took the pseudonym of “Acton Bell.” Reviews were mixed, and it took many years before Emily's poetry was ...
In this dark comedy inspired by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Charlene is going to have to figure out how to let go of her mortal life and embrace the Christmas Spirit.
Strange occurrences in the old Rossi house on Beacon Hill, just purchased by impulsive Gina Rossi, lead to a Christmas she and her family will never forget.