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Why do so many love a good ghost story at Christmas? A psychologist explains

Christmas is usually seen as a time of light, warmth, and happiness. However, in Europe there is a long tradition of people embracing the darker side by telling ghost stories during the festive season.

The Conversation

The fright before Christmas: it’s the 10 most terrifying festive TV spookfests

Shrieking Victorian phantoms, dastardly occultists and Christopher Lee’s vast head … here we reveal the finest Christmas chillers there ever were

The Guardian - UK

“The busker in my high street is terrible! He never gets any better. I had this idea: he doesn’t realise he’s dead and carries on”: Steven Wilson’s desperate desire to believe in ghosts inspired his last fully prog album

2013’s The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) was a collection of ghost stories in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, MR James and spooky 70s kids’ TV. He explained each track in his own words

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How to watch A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 online or on TV

Kit Harrington stars in this years A Ghost Story for Christmas. Here's how you can watch Lot No. 249 online and from anywhere.

WhatToWatch

Mark Gatiss: ‘Christmas is the perfect time for ghosts’

Glad tidings of comfort and joy? Not if Mark Gatiss has anything to do with it. David Barnett meets the man who haunts Christmas

The Independent UK

Smile review – grin and bear it in this queasy, nasty horror melodrama

A psychiatrist fleeing her own trauma discovers a grisly, self-replicating chain of destruction

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: I keep coming back to this house on the hill

Wothorpe, Cambridgeshire: The ruin is pure MR James, with its skull-socket towers, lack of light, and accompanying owl

The Guardian - UK

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