Told After Supper

(Excerpt): "e;And not only do the ghosts themselves always walk on Christmas Eve, but live people always sit and talk about them on Christmas Eve.

Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories.

Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres.

It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood."e;