A Ghost Story for Christmas in June I could be wrong but I feel that between the US and the UK, the UK is much more interested in the telling of haunting Christmas stories; ones with ghosts with dire consequence. In the US it feels like we still just want warm stories of Christmas miracles or redemption plus lots of cute. Let me tell you right now which I prefer. There is something really exciting about a good ghost story but one that takes place around Christmas is even more exciting. A while back I did an article about A Christmas Carol and there I did a look at the history of such stories. They certainly existed prior to Charles Dickens ever wrote the story but he made one of the most famous stories of the genre. Then there is M.R. James. M.R. James was a writer who was known for writing some of the best ghost stories ever. Period. One of the hallmarks of what James wrote included characters that had antiquarian tendencies. These are people who studied or was aficionados of th...
