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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...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: Day 3- The Story of the Goblin Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens
In an old abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago—so long, that the story must be a true one, because our great grandfathers implicitly believed it—there officiated as sexton and grave-digger in the church-yard, one Gabriel Grub. It by no...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: Day 2- Between the Lights by E.F. Benson
The day had been one unceasing fall of snow from sunrise until the gradual withdrawal of the vague white light outside indicated that the sun had set again. But as usual at this hospitable and delightful house of Everard Chandler where I often spent Christmas, and was...
12 Days of Weird Christmas Presents: Day 1- Schneider Von Groot’s Christmas Dream by George Warwick
It was Christmas Eve, of all nights in the year, And old Schneider Von Groot, who was full of good cheer, Was seeking his home, like a jolly old elf, And was singing a drinking song all to himself, Of the glories of beer, and of schnapps, and of wine,— Of the draught...
Welcome to the Band: Carol Edwards
If you love poetry, be sure to check out Carol Edwards contribution to Playlist of the Damned. We’re thrilled to welcome Carol to the Weird Little Worlds family and excited for you to read her work! Carol is a northern California native transplanted to southern...