Christmas Ghosts: M. R. James Style
The Christmas ghost story tradition is one of England’s finest gifts to the world. Imagine the family gathered in Dickensian fashion, with plum pudding and Read More
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Michael C. Norton’s The Blizzard
Michael C. Norton’s The Blizzard (1988) is the first in what will be a long summer of 1980s Horror novels. The people to blame are Read More
The Ghostbreakers: The Horror of Studley Grange
“The Horror of Studley Grange” was one of a series from Stories From the Diary of a Doctor by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax. Read More
Link: Science Fiction Christmas
So, Christmas is a tradition filled with iconic images, not the least of which is the jolly fat man in the red suit. Sure, Santa Read More
Link: Cthulhu Christmas Classics: The Festival
I have been re-experiencing HP Lovecraft recently. I read pretty much everything he ever wrote back in the late 1980s when I was obsessed with Read More
Tarzan and The Time Trap
Tarzan and “The Time Trap” appeared in TV Tornado Annual 1968, an annual usually sold around Christmas time. The author and artist are not known. Read More
Link: Ghosts at Christmas: Dickens to Davies
Charles Dickens gets the credit for the idea of a ghost story at Christmas. We all know Scrooge, whether it’s Alastair Sim, Bill Murray, Patrick Read More
The Jamesian Break in Ghost Stories
Before the Break There was a Jamesian break in the ghost story model that happened around 1900. This really came home to me as I Read More
Link: The Adventures of Santa Claus
Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Pere Noel. Whatever you call him, he is a busy guy. Every year he has to make billions of Read More
Link: The Four Color Adventures of Frosty the Snowman
From just about the very beginning of comic books, publishers have realized that with the extra leisure and more generous spending habits of December, it’s Read More