It's not a tradition that's much followed today, but in the Victorian era, gathering around the fireplace on Christmas Eve to tell ghost stories was one of the mainstays of the holiday period. How the ...
Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my stomach drops a little bit and a shiver of twinned fear and delight runs down ...