Christmas time often feels like a perfect occasion to explore history. It gives us a sense of calm and curiosity for old traditions. The celebration of Christmas pre-dates Christianity and this often reflects in the ghostly and suspenseful tales shared during this time.
Whether you're looking at the most famous ghostly Christmas tale in the English language: 'A Christmas Carol' or collections of weird and fascinating tales with a moral message. Here are the top 5 Christmas books filled with such stories to read this holiday season.
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A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol has become a phenomenal touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, stages and filmed, this richly influential novella is powerfully vivid and infallibly moving. (read more...)
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Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott
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Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community (read more...)
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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
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This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space (read more...)
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Fairy Tales
By Hans Christian Andersen
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This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more. Hans Christian Andersen was a popular Danish children's author. (read more...)
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Christmas Books
By Charles Dickens
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In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore. (
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