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Ghost stories. Long before "The Nightmare Before Christmas" combined the spooky with the sentimental for popular entertainment, people bonded around eerie stories at Christmastime.
Christmas horror novels and films are sometimes based on horror elements from a variety of Christmas storytelling traditions, including Krampus and Perchta of Central Europe and Icelandic folklore's Gryla, who punish miscreants, sometimes in cooperation with Santa Claus, and Kallikantzaroi of Southeastern Europe, who create general mayhem ...
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge , an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of ...
M. R. James in about 1900. The first five films are adaptations of stories from the four books by M. R. James, published between 1904 and 1925. [8] The ghost stories of James, an English mediaeval scholar and Provost of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, were originally narrated as Christmas entertainments to friends and selected students.
These films have become part of holiday movie culture — and now, “Nosferatu” could join them as another not-so-festive flick. A poster featuring an alternative title for "Black Christmas ...
Even "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993) superfans may not have noticed these details.. Many of the decorations around Halloween Town are made from coffins, spiders, and pumpkins.. There are ...
The Stalls of Barchester is a short film which serves as the first of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written, produced, and directed by the series' creator Lawrence Gordon Clark, [1] it is based on the ghost story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" by M. R. James, first published in the collection More Ghost Stories (1911).
Christmas tales cover a wide range of subjects, from ghost stories and family remembrances, to fantastical yarns featuring elves Santa Claus. 10 Christmas tales to charm, frighten and delight kids ...