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"A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas", commonly known as "A Christmas Carol", is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

"A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas", commonly known as "A Christmas Carol", is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

"Between the Lights" is a Christmas ghost story by the British author, E. F. Benson. It first appeared in his 1912 collection, "The Room in the Tower and Other Stories". What was it that Everard Chandler experienced on the croquet lawn?

"The Curse of Yig" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced.

"The Snowman" is a short story by the American author, Loretta Burrough. The story was first published in the December 1938 edition of Weird Tales. The magazine provided the following synopsis: “Her first husband lay at the bottom of a deep crevasse in a Swiss glacier—but why should a snow image in his likeness strike her with such eery terror?”

"The Red Brain" is a short story by Donald Wandrei, written when he was just 16. It first appeared in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, and tells of a strange, menacing cosmic dust that engulfs the universe.

"The Occupant of the Room" is a short story by English writer Algernon Blackwood. The tale tells of a Englishman on vacation in the Swiss Alps, who attempts to reserve a room at a quiet village inn, only to discover there are no vacancies. He is later offered a room that is 'in a sense engaged', and the rumours voiced by the inn's porter regarding the possible fate of the previous occupant excite his imagination.

"A Dream of Red Hands" is a short story by British writer, Bram Stoker. The story was first published in the London weekly, THE SKETCH, in 1894, and tells the sad tale of a man plagued by terrible nightmares.

"There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard" is a short story by British author, M. R. James. The tale tells of a man whose wandering gaze often falls upon the nightly funerals that take place next to his lonely house by the cemetery.

The Opener of the Way" is a work of horror fiction by American writer, Robert Bloch. Originally published in the October 1936 edition of Weird Tales, the magazine described the story as, "A tremendous tale about the dread doom that overtook an archaeologist in that forgotten tomb beneath the desert sands of Egypt…"