In our 2016 holiday episode we look at the forgotten Christmas Eve tradition of telling ghost stories. M.R. James' work from over a hundred years ago best represents this Victorian trend, so in his honor we bring horror to academia and safe spaces.

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Additional Resources:

• How Did Antiquarians Become Action Story Heroes?
• Ghost stories: why the Victorians were so spookily good at them
• Christmas Ghost Stories: The Ghost of Christmas Past Goes Further Back Than You Might Realize
• M. R. James' Ghost Stories Work Eerily Well in This Graphic Fiction Form
• Telling ghost stories is a lost tradition on Christmas Eve