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Great Wall (1996) 24 copies
Disney 365 Bedtime Stories (2009) 23 copies
Official Jurassic Park (1993) 14 copies
Last Night London Burned (2003) 8 copies
Hotel Palenque (2010) 8 copies, 1 review
Condensation: Haegue Yang (2009) 6 copies
Elegant and Easy (1983) 6 copies
Heimo Zobernig (2003) 6 copies
Pizza (Delicious) (2008) 5 copies
The Roald Dahl Diary 2000 (1999) 4 copies
World of Language (1993) 4 copies
Pompeii AD79 (1976) 4 copies
Bagpuss Annual 2001 (2000) 3 copies
Dalaman Havalimani (2007) 3 copies
Helena Almeida (2009) 3 copies
Jakob Kolding (2001) 2 copies
Our Australia (1985) 2 copies
Mario Merz (1985) 2 copies
Killer Diseases (2000) 2 copies
Bible - Russian (2001) 2 copies
Sinn Und Form 1959 No 1 (1959) 2 copies
bluebooks Beachboys (2004) 1 copy
July 3 - Your Birthday (1990) 1 copy
Aperture 81 1 copy
Endless Skies of Blue (1997) 1 copy
Draw and Find (2002) 1 copy
YOU 1 copy
Business Basics (2000) 1 copy
Bulgarian Bible (1988) 1 copy
POW! Annual 1969 (1968) 1 copy
Fotografla Turkiye (1930) 1 copy
Nineveh & Khorsabad (1965) 1 copy
Clovis Trouille (1972) 1 copy
Christmas Ghost Stories (2005) 1 copy, 1 review
New Life in Christ (1964) 1 copy
Finland Creators (1992) 1 copy
Hommage aan Dali (1981) 1 copy
The BS1 Project (2009) 1 copy, 1 review
Storia 4: Green (1990) 1 copy
Transactions 5 vol 25 (1975) 1 copy
Mike Hentz: Works 4 (1999) 1 copy
Satan (1951) 1 copy
Jorvik Viking Centre (1992) 1 copy
The Victory Book (1900) 1 copy
The Arabian Nights (1900) 1 copy
South Devon (1900) 1 copy

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''This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
And Christe receive thy saule.''
Lyke Wake Drige Lament
Christmas is arguably the jolliest time of the year. Lights everywhere, bright ornaments, laughing children singing beautiful carols. Ages-old traditions getting rejuvenated every year. However, Christmas is a part of winter. And winter is a dark time. A time for ghosts...
The tradition of narrating ghost stories during Christmas flourished in the show more Victorian era but its roots can be found in the pagan times during the Winter Solstice and the Yule when the terror of the supernatural had immense power over the people's hearts and could only be exorcised by sharing experiences around the fire, finding shelter in togetherness. This collection includes some of the most unsettling, wintry ghost stories from the UK, the USA and Canada I've ever read.
The rucksack of a condemned man comes alive. An old nanny becomes the witness of a tragic story and a young man becomes a passenger to a cart whose destination lies far from our world. A vindictive ghost haunts the ghosts of an estate in Cornwall and an evil vicar is taunted by goblins. A young English woman faces the consequences of her husband's darkest secrets and a professor makes a strange pact with a most unsuitable Christmas visitor a.k.a the Devil. A hide-and-seek game attracts a player that wasn't supposed to be there. Charles Dickens and Santa Claus meet in a ghost shop and two brothers play a macabre game of disappearance.

An enemy of Christmas is made to face the results of his hatred in an astonishing story and a young woman is bound to an earthly half-existence. A dead husband calls for his wife. A woman is haunted by the vengeful presence of her husband's ex-wife and by dark premonitions. The spirit of a beautiful French girl haunts the estate that is about to shelter two young lovers to dreadful results.

Make no mistake. These stories contain very few festive moments. They are dark and twisted and firmly related to the human inclination of revenge. Love affairs, threats, family secrets, companionship, and remembrance. And who wouldn't choose Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Aiken, Muriel Spark, M.R.James and many more to spend a few spooky nights by the bright Christmas tree and the dark window?

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