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"Victorian-era Christmas ghost stories are associated primarily with Charles Dickens and other British writers, but for this new volume, editor Christopher Philippo has discovered that the tradition of telling and publishing ghostly tales at Christmas flourished in the New World as well. These tales are set in places that are familiar and yet foreign to us--Gold Rush-era San Francisco, old New Orleans, the barren and frozen plains of Iowa and the...
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"For this fifth Valancourt volume of Christmas ghost stories, editor Christopher Philippo has dug deeper than ever before, delving into the archives of Victorian-era newspapers and magazines from throughout the British Isles to find twenty-one rare texts for the Christmas season - seventeen stories and four poems - most of them never before reprinted. Featured here are gems by once-popular but now-forgotten 19th-century masters of the supernatural...
63) An Irish holiday
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A selection of ireland's leading performing talent gather at Slane Castle to offer stories, anecdotes, music and songs to express the spirit of an Irish Christmas.
64) The big wish
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Emma and Sheltie are busy making deliveries and helping the little children with their Christmas play. But the snowy weather is causing problems for one little girl who longs to spend Christmas with her dad. Can Emma and Sheltie make Rosie's wish come true?