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Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death & The Victorian Book of the Dead. Ghosts, death, mourning, costume, Forteana. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
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Some images of
Jack Frost costume from "Santa Claus" panto, 1894
1910 Jack Frost with his silver brush, Jack Frost and Parsnip, 1914
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2020-11-27

I'm doing a brief program on Victorian Christmas ghost stories in a few weeks. Many of my favourites--like "The Crown Derby Plate"--are too long for the format, so I'm looking for recommendations for a shorter tale. Thoughts?

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2020-11-21

Today's is from Haunted Ohio III. "The Banshee."

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2020-10-29

Today's about a phantom hitchhiker comes from Haunted Ohio III's chapter on "Highways to Hell."

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2020-10-25

Today's is from Haunted Ohio III: The Phantom Mansion. There are a surprising number of "ghost house" tales from the around the world.

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2020-10-23

The night-watch over a corpse and a sinister aural haunting. I do love a ghost story that includes mourning customs. https://t.co/OR4QlGXayg

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2020-10-14

sewing joke du jour 1869

“Why are you so late this morning?” we asked our boy.
He answered, “’Cos I held the candle till midnight for mother, who sat up mending stockings. She says she saw a book in the shop-window that says, ‘It’s never too late to mend.’

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2020-09-01

on the lament of a man cast out of his home by fruit. The Women Folk are Canning Fruit. https://t.co/5baYCa1ZBJ

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2020-08-23

Reported in 1896
The funeral procession must not cross a river.
Baldwinsville, N. Y.

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2020-08-20