Charles Dickens
Publisher
Mattel Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Eden Starling is the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make the entire company of theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day. Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine, can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It will be up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to take Eden on a fantastical holiday journey that will open...
64) Bleak house
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge is a cranky old mouse who is only concerned with his business and making money. Scrooge thinks Christmas is just a waste of time. But on the night of Christmas Eve, he is visited by three ghosts who take him on a journey through his past, present, and future. His experience could change him forever and teach him the true meaning of Christmas!
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"During the hectic Christmas season, slow down with these heartwarming stories from some of literature's most beloved writers. In this collection, readers will discover lesser-known but tender stories and poems from classic authors they know and love. Each selection celebrates the beauty, mystery, and joy found in the season that commemorates Christ's birth. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne,...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt this terrifying new selection of ghost stories. Bringing together the best works from the masters of the supernatural, these are stories that defined the genre. They range from the famous, such as M.R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad', and W.W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"A treat for all lovers of the traditional ghost story: here are thirty-five well-wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, and spectral warnings from beyond the grave, each one of them guaranteed to generate 'the pleasurable shudder'."--Jacket
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
Horror can come at any moment, from any direction, and in any form; even the most seemingly innocent person or object can suddenly turn into a being or device that will terrify. Many of our finest writers have been fascinated with horror, and this unique collection gives one hundred examples of what the masters of the short story can do to our minds and nerves.
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the...
76) The Graphic Canon: Volume 2:From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Series
Graphic canon volume 2
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"The world's great literature as comics and visuals"--Cover.