I’m going to try something this year.  One of the Christmas traditions in England is telling ghost stories. The best known example of this is Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. That’s not the only example. The practice was most popular during the Victorian era. It declined after World War II. I first heard of ghost stories at Christmas in the song The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. 

I’m gong to combine this tradition with the Twelve Days of Chritmas.

Sort of.

The Twelve Days of Christmas start on December 25 and run until Jnauary 5. The ghost story tradition (as leas4t as I understand it) leads up to December 25.

What I’m going to do is look at twelve ghost stories set at Christmas, but I’m going to start now and run through the end of the year. They won’t be every day, of course. I’ll try to stay away from the ones that are the msot well-known and choose some that readers might not be as familiar with. I night even throw in one of my own. If the spirit moves, of course.

(I have not forgottten The Starmen of Llyrdis by Leigh Brackett. I finished grading exams today. I’ll tabulated and upload them tomorrow, then get back to the book.)