![]() ![]() They’re about darker, older, more fundamental things: winter, death, rebirth, and the rapt connection between a teller and his or her audience. ![]() Its origins have little to do with the kind of commercial Christmas we've celebrated since the Victorian age. At the edge of the year, it also makes sense to think about people and places that are no longer with us. When the night grows long and the year is growing to a close, it’s only natural that people feel an instinct to gather together. The tradition of holiday ghost stories goes much, much farther back-farther, perhaps, than Christmas itself. ![]() ![]() Here, Marley's ghost surprises Ebenezer Scrooge in an illustration from the first edition of the classic tale.Įbenezer Scrooge wasn’t the first fictional character to see ghosts around Christmas time. Boo! Telling ghost stories on Christmas was a tradition for hundreds of years.
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