So this is probably very American of me, but I did not realize, Dickens Christmas Carol notwithstanding, that ghost stories are apparently a British Christmas tradition.  Hereabouts, Halloween is the spooky season.  But here we have a collection of late 19th and early 20th century ghostly tales culled from the British Library. By and large this is a fairly amiable collection of ghosts.  They have Reasons to visit the living, mostly along the lines of unfinished business, but aren’t actively looking to harm anyone.  Belief […]