"Afterward" by Edith Wharton
I don’t want to have to drive ten miles to see somebody else’s ghost. I want one of my own on the premises. An American businessman and his wife come to England to retire amid gothic splendor, but find that the ghosts in their new home are not the quaint..."The Specter of Strathannan" by W. E. Norris
This is an amusing little ghost story set in a Scottish castle with a ghost. As the narrator notes, this is not particularly remarkable, "but what made the Strathannan specter so peculiarly awe-inspiring was that it was said only to manifest itself to tho...Death and the afterlife: how dying affected the living in the Middle Ages
There are lots of beautiful and creepy images in this collection of medieval depictions of the dead at the British Library: The Church taught that the fate of a person's soul was determined not only by his or her behaviour in life, but also by the manner ...Sweden's Queen Silvia says palace is haunted by ghosts - BBC News
What's a palace without a few ghosts? "You sometimes feel that you're not completely alone," the queen told the filmmakers, insisting her alleged cohabitants are "all very friendly" Princess Christina, the king's sister, backed the queen's claims when she...There is space in the magic: interview with Noel Arthur Heimpel, creator of The Numinous Tarot - Little Red Tarot
Beyond healing myself and helping to heal others with tarot, my ultimate tarot quest is identifying and collecting tarot decks that center queer, trans, and people of color in their images. It's a task that should be much easier to accomplish than it is.Bibliomancy in an M.R. James story - Shared from /ghoststories
Today's story on /GhostStories features the use of the bible for divination, aka Sortes Sanctorum: ...it came into my Thoughts, as at such moments of Helplessness we are prone to catch at any the least Glimmer that makes promise of Light, to make trial o...A Podcast to the Curious - The M.R. James Podcast
While I was preparing today's winter tale, I ran across this fun M.R. James podcast. He's one of my favorite authors and the podcast is well-worth a listen. Check out this early episode on The Ash-Tree..Winter Tales: "The Ash-Tree" by M. R. James
M. R. James wrote many of his frightening stories as entertainment to be "read to friends at Christmas-time at King's College, Cambridge," as he explains in the opening of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The following story from the same collection feature...Winter Tales: "A Strange Christmas Game" by M.H. Riddell
Today's story for Christmas Eve is by J.H. Riddell (aka Charlotte Riddell) and tells of two siblings who inherit an appropriately dreary old mansion complete with mysterious disappearances and rumored hauntings. Text available on The Haunted Library via W...Winter Tales: "The Body Snatchers" by Robert Louis Stevenson
According to Interesting Literature, "Robert Louis Stevenson‘s 1884 Christmas ghost story, ‘The Body Snatcher’ was advertised by six men who were paid to roam the streets of London wearing huge coffin-shaped sandwich boards and plaster skulls. These figur...Winter Tales: "Between the Lights" by E. F. Benson
In keeping with Yuletide tradition, /GhostStories will be featuring Christmas ghosts for the month of December. Available from Project Gutenberg Australia. The day had been one unceasing fall of snow from sunrise until the gradual withdrawal of the vagu...Charles Dickens' *Other* Christmas Ghost Stories
A Christmas Carol is only the most famous of Charles Dickens' annual ghost stories. As the NYPL blog explains, he wrote a number of other creepy Christmas stories. Has anyone ever read any of these? (the links go to Project Gutenberg): The Chimes: A Gobli...Winter Tales: "All Alone on Christmas Day" by Hain Friswell
In keeping with Yuletide tradition, /GhostStories will be featuring Christmas ghosts for the month of December. This is an amusing and rather sentimental introduction to Ghost Stories and Phantom Fancies by Hain Friswell, in which the author purports to ...5 True Christmas Ghost Stories to Keep You Awake at Night Until Santa Comes
Here are some spooky modern(!) ghost stories for Christmas: The Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is probably the only remaining tale of a haunting that most of us associate with the holidays. But why let the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet t...Winter Tales: "Ghosts I Have Met And Some Others" by John Kendrick Bangs
In keeping with Yuletide tradition, /GhostStories will be featuring Christmas ghosts for the month of December. This short tale comes from the introduction to "Ghosts I Have Met And Some Others" by John Kendrick Bangs available on the Internet Archive an...Winter Tales: "A Welsh Ghost Story" by Mary E. Hughes
In keeping with Yuletide tradition, /GhostStories will be featuring Christmas ghosts for the month of December. This story comes from Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales, Vol 4 and is available on Google Books and the Internet Archive (audiobook)....Christmas Ghost Stories
The holiday season is upon us, but that doesn't mean it's the end of ghost stories. As Todd Atteberry explains, frightening "winter tales" and ghost stories at Christmas are a long English tradition: The story of Scrooge would be viewed differently if it ...The Ghosts of Pickering Trail
A somewhat different kind of "ghost story," but a good one about the effects of living in a place haunted by past violence."Kerfol" by Edith Wharton
This is an odd tale featuring an artfully rotting estate, a medieval story of vengence, and... dogs. [Project Gutenberg] I “You ought to buy it,” said my host; “its Just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while t...GhostStories
Ghosts aren't just for Halloween! Join ghost stories for spooky tales all times of year. /GhostStories is a community for sharing your favorite paranormal fiction, stories of historical hauntings, and even real life personal experiences!The Unsolved Mystery of the Zaragoza Goblin - Shared from /interest_intrigue
Via /Interest_Intrigue, the very weird story of the Zaragoza "goblin" The madness began on September 27th, 1934 in the second floor home of the Palazón family, who lived in an apartment building on what was then known as Gascón Gotor street. It was on th...A Medieval English Revenant
medievaldeathtrip.comOne of my favorite podcasts, Medieval Death Trip, did a halloween episode this week about English ghost legends of "revenants," aka medieval zombies. He reads a great story from William of Newburgh about a dead man who comes back to harrass his relatives....Ghost Map of the U.K.
Find your nearest haunted house! (Assuming you live in the U.K.)An Ancient Roman Haunted House!
How about a truly old-school ghost story? This one was recorded by Pliny the Younger: There was in Athens a house, large and spacious, which had a bad reputation as though it was filled with pestilence. In the dead of night, a noise was frequently heard ...




