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In 1899, in the North Yorkshire market town of Thorpe Morton, a tragedy occurred; 59 people died at the market hall whilst celebrating Christmas Eve, many of them children. One hundred years on and the spirits of the deceased are restless still, 'haunting' the community, refusing to let them forget. In 1999, psychic investigators Theo Lawson and Ness Patterson are called in to help, sensing immediately on arrival how weighed down the town is. Quickly they discover there's no safe haven. The past taints everything.

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.

Life has been difficult for the Feltcher family since the loss of loving wife and mother, Courtney Feltcher. Her husband, Jack Feltcher, buries his grief in his job, working long hours and neglecting his children. The Feltcher children struggle with the loss of their mother, and a father who is too busy with work to be present. Chad Reynolds, an ex-con with a bone to pick, plots his revenge, while a malevolent Christmas elf rises.

In the fog-filled streets of Victorian London, Christmas Eve brings anything but peace to Jason Gibson, a reclusive dollmaker whose life is confined to his dim, solitary workshop. Tasked with a strange, urgent commission from the mysterious Mrs. Wicklow, Jason accepts her daunting terms, three unique, perfect dolls by dawn, in exchange for an unimaginable sum. But as midnight strikes, Jason’s task spirals into something far darker. Each doll he crafts takes on a life of its own, expressions twisted with sorrow, fear, and haunting malice.

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.

'Cledwyn Hughes is Aikmanesque in his ability to unnerve and unsettle, and is at once both uncanny and droll, The Inn Closes for Christmas is a dark and bizarre tale of obsession and its consequences' Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Us Discover the lost masterpiece from the...

Tradition is just another ritual, and rituals are written to be remembered. Be careful which rituals you practice, my friend, for they call out to things well hidden...to horrors best left unknown.