A new anthology of Victorian Christmas ghost stories to haunt your holidays.

Not all Christmas visitors are jolly... or alive. While the holidays evoke warm memories of carols, decorations, and gift-giving, horror lurks beneath the holly. The Victorians sought a pleasing terror each December 24th, relishing tales of spirits, goblins, and demons. Shadow House Publishing is proud to continue this tradition with YULETIDE FRIGHTS 2: MORE VICTORIAN GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS. Bestselling author and anthologist William P. Simmons exhumes fifteen supernatural tales that capture the fright and macabre merriment of the season.

Winter Solstice. Yuletide. Christmas. The holidays are filled with shivers and glad tidings, harkening us back to a time when the sun died, and the powers of darkness held sway. Gather 'round the fire and unwrap some of the greatest ghost stories in the English language. Unearthed from moldering Victorian magazines and crumbling newsprint, many of these tales haven't been reprinted for over a century and include spine tingling classics alongside little known rarities by B.M. Croker, Florence Marryat, Ernest R. Suffling, Margaret Oliphant, and many more.

The dead are not at rest this holiday. Victorian era Christmas's are haunted by vengeful pagan entities, wandering wraiths, and folklore fiends. Malignant phantoms wreak havoc at Christmas Eve revels. Cursed portraits seduce both flesh and soul. Festive reunions end in unspeakable tragedy. Nocturnal visitors collect damned souls, devilish deals are made, and graveyard visitants haunt houses and minds alike. Funerary fables of phantom monks, White Ladies, and black magic strike just the right balance of fright and fun for the long winter evenings. This volume offers modern readers the experience of perusing a Victorian era Christmas Number. Editor Simmons contributes an Introduction and Notes examining the cultural and literary context of the Christmas ghost story tradition, rounding out this dark delicacy.

Resurrect a terrifying tradition this holiday season. Enjoy ghost stories as entertaining now as when first published. Roast some chestnuts, lock the doors, and spend the night with the spirits of Christmas past!

Table of Contents:

• Tonight, You Will Be Visited By Three Spirits

• The Tower, Barry Pain

• On the Leads, Sabine Baring-Gould

• A Story Told in a Church, Ada Buisson

• A Christmas Tale, Margaret Oliphant

• Asher's Last Hour, George Manville Fenn

• What Was He?, Theo Gift

• The Dak Bungalow at Dakor, B.M. Croker

• Bone to His Bone, E.G. Swain

• The Black Lady of Brin Tor, Guy Boothby

• The Phantom Flash, William Wilthew Fenn

• The Monk's Penance, Ernest R. Suffling

• The Dead Man's Story, James Hain Friswell

• The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, Florence Marryat

• Jerry Bundler, W.W. Jacobs

• The Old Portrait, Hume Nisbet

EDITOR BIO:
William P. Simmons is a critically acclaimed Amazon bestselling author of four collections and editor of eight anthologies. Specializing in supernatural horror, his work has been published in several magazines and anthologies. He has been featured in Publisher's Weekly, Rue Morgue, and Dark Discoveries. An active HWA member, his fiction and poetry has received eight Honorable Mentions in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR, and has been praised by Adam Nevill, Kealan Patrick Burke, Graham Masterton, and T.M. Wright. Simmons is also a critic, reviewer, and journalist. He feeds the dark so that it won't take even more from him.

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