Christmas Ghost Stories

Michael J. Hallowell

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781445611396
• Edition: 0

Ghost stories are always popular but ghost stories with a Christmas theme, particularly if they are true, are extra special. In this volume the author has compiled dozens of ghost tales, old and new, which are guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. The tale of the mysteriously moving Christmas tree, the mystical parchment of High Fernley Farm, the legendary Hooded Maiden of Barbreck...all these accounts and more can be found within the covers of this eerie and yet enchanting volume. Many of the tales in this book have never been in print before. This book will prove to be a valuable addition to the libraries of those who enjoy nothing more than scaring themselves witless just before the dawn of a new year.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 - The Rector of Standish
• 2 - The Rolling Mill Ghost
• 3 - Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree.
• 4 - The Victoria Hall Disaster
• 5 - The Ghostly Airman
• 6 - The Spectral Coach and Horses
• 7 - The Repentant Uncle
• 8 - The Last Witch of Scheles
• 9 - Nannie Scott
• 10 - Christmas Car Crash
• 11 - Those Bloody Seagulls
• 12 - The Tudhoe Mouse
• 13 - The Top-Hatted Spectre of Blackwood
• 14 - The Old Hell Cat of Raby Castle
• 15 - Talking Ghosts, Musical Ghosts
• 16 - The Hooded Phantom of St. Peter’s
• 17 - The Evil Vicar of Leesfield
• 18 - The Mystical Parchment of High Fernley Farm
• 19 - The Sad Tale of Cicely Kirby
• 20 - Inveraray Jail
• 21 - Old Soldiers Never Die
• 22 - Middlesborough’s Civil Defence Ghost
• 23 - Cleadon Mill House
• 24 - A Swaledale Mining Disaster
• 25 - Blyth Spirit
• 26 - The Girl Across the Stream
• 27 - The Hooded Maiden of Barbreck
• 28 - A Sicilian New Year Ghost
• 29 - “A Queer Christmas Ghost”
• 30 - The Ferry Street Phantoms
• 31 - The Ghost at the Toward Road Laundry
• 32 - The Bishop Bonner Pub
• 33 - The Old Spital Inn
• 34 - A School Possessed
• 35 - Lord Have Mercy Upon Us
• 36 - The Phantom Butterfly of Christmas
• 37 - The Angry Ghost of the Emlyn Arms
• 38 - The New Hall Lane Spectre
• 39 - The Christmas Children of Bramber Castle
• 40 - The Healing Spirit of Henry Transom
• 41 - The Knaresborough Skeleton
• 42 - The Ghost-Fight of Lord St. Audries