Dec 28, 2021
Elizabeth de Wynt and Cecilia Montresor are friends, writing letters back and forth, sharing news of their lives as friends do. Elizabeth is traveling, while Cecilia is getting settled into a new house in London. The house is perfect, but it did come with startingly cheap rent for the city. Cecilia’s letters turn...
Dec 14, 2021
In Rosemary Timperley’s story “Christmas Meeting,” two lonely people find company during the holiday season. [Story can be found in Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories (1983)]
Recommended: Yellowjackets on Showtime; Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key
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Nov 30, 2021
You know the most famous Christmas ghost story of them all. A miserly, miserable man must learn the true meaning of Christmas by meeting with three appropriately themed holiday specters. There have been many spins and takes on Dickens’s famous tale, but one of our favorites is Connie Willis’s “Adaptation.” In...
Nov 16, 2021
The narrator of Jeanette Winterson’s “Dark Christmas” will be celebrating Christmas at Highfallen House with friends. No one seems to know who owns the house and is letting them stay there, but that doesn't seem to matter. The narrator goes ahead to spend a night alone in the house before picking up their friends...
Nov 2, 2021
Following our discussion of Elsa Lanchester and her iconic role as The Bride of Frankenstein, we wanted to take another look at another one of her iconic films, this time, Bell, Book, and Candle. In the film, Gillian is a shop owner--and a secret witch. Using her occult powers (and her cat familiar, Pyewacket), Gillian...