Linking about: Victorian Christmas Books and Tales
(Readers puzzled by some of the contents should recollect that the Victorians thought the Christmas season was an excellent time for ghost and horror stories.)
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "At Chrighton Abbey"
- Wilkie Collins, Miss Dulane and My Lord
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- ---, The Chimes
- ---, The Cricket on the Hearth
- ---, The Battle of Life
- ---, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
- ---, other Christmas tales at the University of Adelaide Library (scroll down)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
- Tom Hood, "The Shadow of a Shade" (PDF)
- Alfred Paxton, "My Cousin, the Ghost, or, Something Like a Christmas Box"
- Mrs. J. H. Riddell, The Uninhabited House (PDF) (See also this image of the original cover.)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Christmas Sermon"
- W. M. Thackeray, The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
- Philip V. Allingham on Dickens' final Christmas Book.
- The University of Glasgow's online exhibit of A Christmas Carol.
- Eva Margareta Löfgren's personal collection of annuals.
- Randall Stock's "Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887: An Annotated Checklist and Census"