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Джером К. Джером. The Dead Rise Again on Christmas Eve
The Dead Rise Again on Christmas Eve
Table of Contents
The Strange Visitation (Marie Corelli)
The Night of Christmas Eve (Nikolai Gogol)
The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy)
First Night
Second Night
Third Night
Fourth Night
Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki)
Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould)
I
II
III
IV
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James)
Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
Letter IV
The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)
Chapter I. The Gift Bestowed
Chapter II. The Gift Diffused
Chapter III. The Gift Reversed
Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)
Chapter I. To Be Taken Immediately
Chapter II. Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time
Chapter III. To Be Taken at the Dinner-Table
Chapter IV. Not to Be Taken for Granted
Chapter V. To Be Taken in Water
Chapter VI. To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt
Chapter VII. To Be Taken and Tried
Chapter VIII. To Be Taken for Life
The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Stave I. Marley's Ghost
Stave II. The First of the Three Spirits
Stave III. The Second of the Three Spirits
Stave IV. The Last of the Spirits
Stave V. The End of It
The Ghost’s Touch (Fergus Hume)
Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould)
The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson)
Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe)
Preface
First Part. Round the Fire
First Evening
Second Evening
Third Evening
Fourth Evening
Fifth Evening
Sixth Evening
Seventh Evening
Eighth Evening
Appendix
Second Part. Legends of the Earthbound
The Italian's Story
The Dutch Officer's Story
The Old French Gentleman's Story
The Swiss Lady's Story
The Sheep-Farmer's Story
My Friend's Story
The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O’Connor)
Thurlow’s Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs)
I
II
The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs)
The Abbot’s Ghost; or Maurice Treherne’s Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott)
Chapter I. Dramatis Personae
Chapter II. Byplay
Chapter III. Who Was It?
Chapter IV. Feeding the Peacocks
Chapter V. Under the Mistletoe
Chapter VI. Miracles
Chapter VII. A Ghostly Revel
Chapter VIII. Jasper
Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)
Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker)
Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)
Introductory
How the Stories came to be told
Teddy Biffles' Story
Interlude—The Doctor's Story
Interlude
A Personal Explanation
My Own Story
The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)
Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens)
The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie)
The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald)
The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy)
Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker)
At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis)
Between the Lights (E. F. Benson)
Transition (Algernon Blackwood)
The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood)
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Marie Corelli, Nikolai Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Jerome K. Jerome, Leonard Kip, Catherine Crowe, William Douglas O'Connor, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Louisa M. Alcott, Florence Marryat, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine L. Pirkis, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford, James Bowker
Occult & Supernatural Thrillers, Horror Classics & Macabre Mysteries
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The suffering millionaire, breathless, exhausted and conscious of a great aching pain at his heart, gazed at the peaceful scene before him in silence. It was a very little garden upon which he looked,—a mere tea-cup of a garden,—but full to the brim of the sweetest blossom. The cottage to which the garden belonged was likewise very small, but it had a deep and cosy porch, up which the loveliest jessamine clambered and threw out tufts of odorous white spray. Red roses thrust their warm glowing faces through the masses of snowy bloom, and, twining in friendly garlands, showered their velvety petals at the feet of a fair woman who sat just within the porch, with her arms thrown round a sturdy boy of some nine or ten years old. She was well worth the homage of the roses—for she was very sweet to look upon,—fresh-complexioned as the bloom on a peach,—soft-eyed,—full-bosomed, and of an aspect expressing the serenest peace, love and tenderness.
“Once upon a time!” she said.
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