Aren't they? I love the idea of giving beautiful ghost story collections as gift books
Thanks! I am all for the ghost story tradition returning. I've read Christmas Carol but none of the others and now I'm curious how they compare
I'm still new to tarot and didn't know New Year spreads were a thing, but I'm definitely going to try one of these out now!
The ending quote makes this very fitting with the Christmas theme!:
“The reason we released it now is to keep up the tradition of having ghost stories read during the cold months and during the holiday. There is something very cosy about it: the old house, the main characters playing chess and discussing this odd ceiling, but at the same time you have something very macabre and unsettling.”
I felt the same way. The California law requiring disclosure of a death within 3 years seems reasonable to me.
I try to remember to do it at the beginning of the day but sometimes I forget and do it at the end. I find it's a nice exercise to just keep me handling the cards each day and thinking about the meanings.
You have great handwriting! I only started learning tarot a few months ago and started a (very messy) journal to keep track of one card I draw each day and spreads or notes I take.
Good stories! I'm most curious about the woman in the upside down painting.
Good stories! The hotel one is so scary!
Welcome!
Good one! I love the 1963 film too. The effects are super cheesy but it terrified me as a child. The "hand holding" scene in particular stuck with me, and I remember spending a night terrified my house might be trying to kill me.
Excellent, I'm really hoping the community will pick up with Halloween coming up.
I find EVPs so creepy! Ghosts or not, they freak me out. Hope you post more stories.
Welcome. You should do a post about them!
Freaky even if it was just the moon! Reminds me of when I used to get hypnagogic audio hallucinations - sometimes I'd hear people calling my name right before I fell asleep.
Tell us about it! All things spooky are welcome here
Me too, never had a single supernatural experience but I love hearing about other people's
I love stories like that, both spooky and oddly comforting.
I've been having the same problem with the app. You can read the full story here, it starts on page 201
I made the mistake of first listening to this one while I was spending the night in a hotel and I definitely stayed up longer than I would have normally thinking about demons suddenly appearing beside me.
I love the gothic atmosphere, and the uncertainty if there's really something haunting the narrator or if he's becoming unhinged.
Me too, and it's an author I haven't read much!
Good one! I love Lore. A somewhat similar one is Stuff to Blow Your Mind, which covers mainly scientific topics but they also sometimes do shows on spiritual or supernatural topics. Recently there was an episode about "ghost marriage" in China, which actually would make a good post for this community now that I think about it.
Glad you did! It explains a lot about the tropes that are still common to western ghost stories.
It is, isn't it? It puts a Christmas Carol in context. I've never thought of it as particularly spooky - the ghosts are more like rhetorical devices than something meant to scare you - but there's definitely a very creepy air to many parts, especially the climax with Scrooge seeing his own grave.



