How does the line in the Christmas carol go…there’ll be scary ghost stories….? In Victorian England, from the 1830’s until around 1900, telling ghost stories was a big part of how you celebrated ...

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Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Christmas is usually seen as a time of light, warmth, and happiness. However, in Europe there is a long tradition of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When the sun vanishes early and the chill of darkness comes on deep and fast, there has always been an instinct to ...

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This year’s BBC Ghost Story for Christmas is an adaptation of E. F. Benson’s 1912 tale of vampiric horror and haunted sleep, The Room in the Tower. The unnamed narrator begins the story by relating a ...