Swooning, or slight mental mistiness, is not very unusual in ghost seers. The brother of a friend of my own, a man of letters and wide erudition, was, as a boy, employed in a shop in a town, say Wexington. The overseer was a dark, rather hecti... Read more of The Dead Shopman at Scary Stories.caInformational Site Network Informational.ca
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Wassailer's Song
Robert Southwell Wassail! Wassail! All Over The To...

The Mother
Robert Haven Schauffler All Day Her Watch Had Lasted On Th...

A Christmas Carol
James Russell Lowell What Means This Glory Round O...

Little Gretchen And The Wooden Shoe
Elizabeth Harrison The Following Story Is One Of Many Wh...

The Little Sister's Vacation
Winifred M. Kirkland It Was To Be A Glorious Christmas A...

The Felling Of The Tree
A Swift Mountain-flood Rolling Down Its Channel; A Huge Roc...

Old Father Christmas
J. H. Ewing The Custom Of Christmas-trees Came From Germ...

The Shepherds In Judea
Mary Austin Oh, The Shepherds In Judea, ...

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Christmas Carol
Listen, lordings, unto me, a tale I will you tell; Which, as on this night of glee, in David's town befell. Joseph came from Nazareth with Mary, that sweet maid; Weary were they nigh to death, and f...

A Christmas Insurrection
ANNE P.L. FIELD In the hush of a shivery Christmas-tide dawn Sing hey! sing ho! heigho! Three small frozen figures hung stiff and forlorn Sing hey! sing ho! heigho! Three dim ghostly...

The Night After Christmas
ANNE P.L. FIELD Twas the night after Christmas in Santa-Claus land And to rest from his labors St. Nicholas planned. The reindeer were turned out to pasture and all The ten thousand assistant...

When The Stars Of Morning Sang
ANNE P.L. FIELD When the stars of morning sang Long ago, Sweet the air with music rang Through the snow, There beside the mother mild Slept the blessed Christmas child,-- ...

A Prayer At Bethlehem
ANNE P.L. FIELD O pulsing earth with heart athrill With infinite creative will! O watchful shepherds in whose eyes Sweet hopes and promises arise! O angel-host whose chanting choir ...

The Christmas Fires
ANNE P.L. FIELD The Christmas fires brightly gleam And dance among the holly boughs, The Christmas pudding's spicy steam With fragrance fills the house, While merry grows each friend...

Carol
O Child of Mary's tender care! O little Child so pure and fair! Cradled within the manger hay On that divine first Christmas day! The hopes of every age and race Are centered in Thy radian...

The Mother
ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER All day her watch had lasted on the plateau above the town. And now the sun slanted low over the dull, blue sheen of the western sea, playing changingly with the angular mountain which ros...