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Embrace the spirits of Christmases past with Kikui Press' second anthology of seasonal tales from the golden age of the Christmas ghost story. Spanning the years 1858-1929, the twenty-six stories contained in this anthology have been carefully selected from the pages of vintage magazines, newspapers and anthologies by Andi Brooks to reflect the full range of ghostly tales which were an essential part of Christmas for our Victorian and Edwardian forebears. Reaching down through the ages, these timeless stories retain the power to move modern readers to shed an unabashed tear at ghostly interventions to redeem lost souls and shudder in genuine horror as terrifying phantoms extract dreadful revenges. Indeed, so potent are these stories that a friendly word of warning is in order. Although the reading of this series of anthologies will surely become a regular part of your Christmas, please don’t leave them to languish upon your bookshelf throughout the rest of the year least the ghosts contained within their pages grow resentful at your neglect and decide to...well, you have been warned! Ghost Stories For Christmas, Volume Two features stories by: James Hain Friswell, John Berwick Harwood, George Manville Fenn, William D. O’Connor, Charlotte Riddell, Ada Buisson, Edward Eggleston, Florence Marryat, F. Ansty, Margaret O. Wilson Oliphant, Theo Gift, Reverend John Swaffield Orton, Frank R. Stockton, Alice Mary Vince, S. Baring-Gould, Percy Andreae, Hume Nisbet, Grant Allen, Lettice Galbraith, Carolyn Wells, Edith Wharton, Bernard Capes, E. G. Swain, Alice Hegan Rice, Hugh Walpole, and an unknown writer. With an introduction and notes by Andi Brooks.