"There'll be parties for hostingMarshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
They'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago"
(from the popular Christmas song
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year")
"We're all familiar with Dickens's A Christmas Story, and the three ghosts who visit Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. But few know that Dickens did not pluck this idea of a Christmas haunting out of thin air - that, in fact, he was continuing the age-old tradition in England of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, a period of time believed to provide and open door to the other side." ---Mary Beth Crain (from her book Haunted Christmas)
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