Episode Eighty Six - A Strange Christmas Game

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.

Intro Music: Excerpt from Pink Fink - Fear the Night (approved by artist)
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Pink Fink
Dark analog funk straight from the horror boogie overlords and the depths of the underworld itself.

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