Spirits of Christmas

Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

A collection of holiday chillers follows the stories of a doctor who makes a house call to a ghost, a psychic detective who must exorcise a well-known holiday icon, and a boy who learns a faraway planet's history from his pet.

Contents:

• Introduction by David G. Hartwell
• The Prescription by Marjorie Bowen
• The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa by John Kendrick Bangs
• How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen by Gene Wolfe
• Old Applejoy's Ghost by Frank R. Stockton
• Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen
• Floodlights by Martha Soukup
• The Real and the Counterfeit by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin
• Snow Ghosts by Richard A. Lupoff
• Unawares by Hildegarde Hawthorne
• A Midwinter's Tale by Michael Swanwick
• The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
• The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story by Ch-r-s D-c-k-n-s by Bret Harte
• The Confessions of Ebenezer Scrooge by James Morrow
• O Come Little Children... by Chet Williamson
• But Do You Recall...? by Greg Cox
• A Handful of Silver by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• A Masquerade of Voices by Susan Palwick
• The Breakdown by Marjorie Bowen
• The Peculiar Demesne by Russell Kirk
• Icicle Music by Michael Bishop