December 24, 2024

Greetings Everyone!

It's Christmas Eve!

A magical night, when the boundaries between this world and the other worlds are thin and insubstantial.  A night when the living can communicate with the dead.  A night for those who want to see a ghost!

Christmas Eve, in particular, is the best night of the year for reading ghost stories.  There is, of course, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens: the scene near the end with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, "draped and hooded", floating "like a mist along the ground" is deliciously nerve-wracking.

My favorite ghost stories are "Jerry Bundler," by W. W. Jacobs; "How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery," by E. F. Benson; and "The Crown Derby Plate," by Marjorie Bowen.

Be sure to check them out!  

JLS