Haunted Holidays Collection

“Marley was dead, to begin with.”

This is the opening to my favorite Christmas Story, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It is easy, therefore, to imagine my delight in finding out that a cultural tradition around Christmas involved families gathering on the 24th of December and telling ghost stories. 

So turn the lamps down, light a candle, and lock your doors. There will be time enough for the bright songs of the morning to bring comfort on Christmas Day. But on this dark eventide, the bumps in the night are not reindeer…