If you love Dickens “A Christmas Carol,” and the various spin offs and movies, you might be surprised to learn that at one time ghost stories were primarily told on Christmas Eve.
“Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories,” humorist Jerome K. Jerome wrote in his 1891 collection, Told After Supper. “Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood.”
Thanks to Gutenberg.org you can read Told After Supper online for free, download it to a Kindle etc. It’s amusing and fun.
Not interested in today’s activities, try the Take a Break Pinterest Board.
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