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Authors, scholars discuss a forgotten holiday tradition of telling scary stories at Christmastime


A Christmas Carol, directed by Sarah Hankins
For some Americans, the spirits most associated with December are the ones used to spike punch and eggnog. Others may think of Ebenezer Scrooge’s nocturnal visitors and wish that “one-percenters” really could be supernaturally terrorized into becoming decent human beings. Holiday shoppers, when subjected to Andy Williams’s 1963 hit “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” momentarily wonder what “scary ghost stories” have to do with “tales of the glories of Christmases long ago.”
In the land of Dickens, Shakespeare and the
BBC, the answer is “a lot.”
The English custom of telling scary stories on the longest and darkest nights of the year was born at a time when people feared not only  ....

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