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12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: The Maid of the Mill by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
"The only objection I have to ghost stories," said young Sanford, "is from a literary point of view. They're so badly done, you know." "In what way?" said the clerk of the hotel, settling back in his office chair, and smiling at young Sanford and the circle of men who...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: The Kit-bag by Algernon Blackwood
When the words 'Not Guilty' sounded through the crowded courtroom that dark December afternoon, Arthur Wilbraham, the great criminal KC, and leader for the triumphant defence, was represented by his junior; but Johnson, his private secretary, carried the verdict...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: The Ghost of the Blue Chamber by Jerome K. Jerome
THE GHOST OF THE BLUE CHAMBER (My Uncle's Story) "I don't want to make you fellows nervous," began my uncle in a peculiarly impressive, not to say blood-curdling, tone of voice, "and if you would rather that I did not mention it, I won't; but, as a matter of fact,...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: The Earth Draws by Jonas Lie
There was once a young salesman at the storekeeper's at Sörvaag. He was fair, with curly hair, shrewd blue eyes, and so smart, and obliging, and handsome, that all the girls in the town got themselves sent on errands, and made pilgrimages to the shop on purpose to see...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell
When, through the death of a distant relative, I, John Lester, succeeded to the Martingdale Estate, there could not have been found in the length and breadth of England a happier pair than myself and my only sister Clare. We were not such utter hypocrites as to...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: A Kidnapped Santa by Frank L. Baum
Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another. It is...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: Day 6 Thirteen at Table by Lord Dunsany
In front of a spacious fireplace of the old kind, when the logs were well alight, and men with pipes and glasses were gathered before it in great easeful chairs, and the wild weather outside and the comfort that was within, and the season of the year—for it was...
12 Days of Weird Christamas Presents: Day 5 The Festival by H.P. Lovecraft
I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. In the twilight I heard it pounding on the rocks, and I knew it lay just over the hill where the twisting willows writhed against the clearing sky and the first stars of evening. And because my fathers...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: Day 4 The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet
Old-fashioned frames are a hobby of mine. I am always on the prowl amongst the framers and dealers in curiosities for something quaint and unique in picture frames. I don’t care much for what is inside them, for being a painter it is my fancy to get the frames first...