Despite what Mariah Carey insists, maybe all we want for Christmas is boo? “When I was younger, before I was aware of the history of the holidays, that Andy Williams ‘scary ghost story’ line ...

Famous Edwardian uthor E. Nesbit is best known for her beloved children’s books, most notably The Railway Children, but the ...

Are big holiday department store displays a ghost of Christmas past? Earlier this month, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported that the Wanamaker Building, which also includes office spaces ...

California's future looks very bleak. The crisis of homelessness didn't exist in the 1970s and now is booming, in part ...

Airing on Christmas Eve on ITV back in 1989, director Herbert Wise's adaptation of Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black represented the pinnacle of the British tradition of festive ghost stories.

Every holiday, we embrace 'A Christmas Carol.' But some of Charles Dickens' other Christmas books were even more popular in ...

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Charles Dickens was one of the first authors to work that out, serving up a series of ghosts in his bestselling 1843 novella, ...

(Parental guidance is suggested.) In America, the Christmas ghost story tradition never quite caught on. Instead, scary stories remained a Halloween tradition. In England, where Halloween wasn’t ...

First up is the Ghost of Christmas Past, who arrives right on schedule. She takes John by the hand, but instead of taking him out and about, she takes him inside his own body when he is 1-year old.

But for people who might not have read it, I’ll borrow one of the chapter titles and ask: “Why the ghost story at Christmas”? Kier-La Janisse: It’s interesting because Derek Johnston ...