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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, partakes in the Victorian era tradition of Christmas Ghost Stories by reading A Strange Christmas Game by Mrs. J. H. Riddell, published in The Broadway Annual in 1868. Enjoy!

Charlotte Eliza Lawson Riddell, known also as Mrs J. H. Riddell, and by her pen name F. G. Trafford, was a popular and influential Irish-born writer in the Victorian period. Born September 30, 1832  and passing away on September 24, 1906, she was the author of 56 books, novels and short stories, and also became part-owner and editor of St. James's Magazine, a prominent London literary journal in the 1860s.

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, discusses the last set of four days/nights of Yule: Eddas Night, Hospitality Day, The Yule Goat, and finally Nornir / Fate Day. This is part four of four in the series. Enjoy!

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, discusses the second set of four days/nights of Yule: Divination Day, Odin’s Night, Årsgång, and Winter Gods Day. This is part three of four in the series. Enjoy! 

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, discusses the first four days/nights of Yule: Mother's Night (Mōdraniht), Jólablót and the Solstice, Honoring the Vættir, and The Wild Hunt. This is part two of four in the series. Enjoy! 

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, discusses the Dark Heart of Winter in this four part series. This is part one of four. Enjoy! 

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, discusses Winter Spirits, Hearth Guardians, and the Folklore of Watching the Dark. This is part two of two. Enjoy! 

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, discusses Winter Spirits, Hearth Guardians, and the Folklore of Watching the Dark. This one is a two parter. Enjoy! 

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, discusses the Victorian Ghost Story once again. Enjoy!

Here are some recommended books to explore and learn more: 

Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology — Michael Cox & R.A. Gilbert
The Old Nurse’s Story — Elizabeth Gaskell
The Signal-Man — Charles Dickens
The Haunted House — Charles Dickens (collection)
At the End of the Passage — Rudyard Kipling
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book — M.R. James
The Judge’s House — Bram Stoker
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary — M.R. James
Uncanny Tales — Vernon Lee
The Victorian Supernatural — Pamela Thurschwell

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, briefly discusses Lost Spirits of Children all over the world and through time. . Enjoy!

Here are some recommended books to explore and learn more: 

- The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories — Michael Newton (Editor)
- Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology — Michael Cox & R.A. Gilbert (Editors)
- The Outcast Spirit: Ghost Children in Folklore — Lieve De Meyer
- Ghosts of the Frozen North — Christine Daaé
- The Mysterious North — Pierre Berton
- The Dark Is Rising — Susan Cooper
- Winter Ghosts — Kate Mosse
- The Wild Hunt: Studies in Northern European Mythology — Ronald Hutton
- Shadows in the Snow: Midwinter Hauntings — Alison Grant
- The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
- Ghosts of the Yuletide: Winter Tales of the Supernatural — Various Authors
- The Lore of Winter Spirits — Petra Sundström

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Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, briefly discusses Victorian Ghost Stories (which will lead up to more in depth coverage on future podcast episodes). Enjoy!

Some authors for you to enjoy: Charles Dickens, M.R. James, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Nesbit, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Margaret Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, Wilkie Collins, E.F. Benson, Amelia B. Edwards, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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