Christmas Spirits

A no-nonsense governess returns to the family home at Christmas to celebrate the season and an upcoming wedding but learns of a curse affecting the men of the family. At Chrighton Abbey is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

Alone in his garrett on Christmas Eve, an artist uncovers a beautiful but disturbing portrait with strange powers. The Old Portrait is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

A lighter tale of a soggy ghost doomed to appear to her ancestors for an hour every Christmas Eve. The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

Lost on the moors on a snowy night, a gentleman boards a passing coach with relief. Then he takes a closer look at his fellow passengers. The Phantom Coach is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

Stranded on some marshes, a gentleman out hunting is forced to spend Christmas Eve inside a rotting, beached shipwreck. A Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

Keen to improve his prospects, a man impersonates a fellow traveler who had changed his mind about an engagement to a wealthy young woman. But he begins to regret his decision when he learns every suitor must face an unknown horror that the family has harbored for generations. The Curse of the Catafalques is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary, and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

A pair of sisters travel to Waddonscombe in Cornwall where they enjoy their hosts' ghost stories around the manor house fire. A cliché, perhaps? Yet events may not play out entirely as expected. Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

A Polish historian visiting Italy falls in love with a sixteenth-century femme fatale, who murdered a series of enthralled husbands and lovers. When he experiences visions of the beautiful Medea Da Carpi, it slowly turns his scholarly fascination into a fatal obsession.