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Chill tidings : dark tales of the Christmas season / edited by Tanya Kirk.
Van Pelt Library PN6120.95.G45 C45 2020
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Tales of the Weird
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghost stories.
- Christmas stories.
- Genre:
- Christmas stories.
- Short stories.
- Horror fiction.
- Christmas fiction.
- Horror tales.
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Library Publishing, 2020.
- Summary:
- The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry. The ghosts are at the door. Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on joining or ruining the most wonderful time of the year. Featuring classic tales from Algernon Blackwood, Rosemary Timperley, and more alongside rare pieces from the sleeping periodicals and literary magazines of the Library collection, it's time to open the door and let the real festivities begin.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A strange Christmas game / Charlotte Riddell
- The old portrait / Hume Nisbet
- The real and the counterfeit / Louisa Baldwin
- Old Applejoy's ghost / Frank R. Stockton
- Transition / Algernon Blackwood
- The fourth wall / A.M. Burrage
- The festival / H.P. Lovecraft
- The Crown Derby plate / Marjorie Bowen
- Green holly / Elizabeth Bowen
- Christmas re-union / Andrew Caldecott
- A Christmas morning / Rosemary Timperley
- Someone in the lift / L.P. Hartley
- Told after supper / Jerome K. Jerome.
- ISBN:
- 9780712353236
- 0712353232
- OCLC:
- 1202963075
- Publisher Number:
- 99988597364
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