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Old Hooker's Ghost; or, Christmas Gambols at Huntingfield Hall

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Bentley’s Miscellany, a monthly magazine, became known for serializing long, illustrated novels. By the 1840s its following had dropped off, but it continued to entertain middle-class readers until the title ceased in 1868. The following story, originally published in 1865, contains all of the ingredients of a decorous country-house Christmas: church-going, alms-bearing, mumming, as well as a Christmas dinner, a ghost-story circle, and a masquerade. The perfect Christmas setting serves as a frame tale for a tragic story and a family supposedly haunted by an avenging spirit. When the ghost narrative begins to invade the frame tale, the memories of past indiscretions disturb the jollity of the holiday proceedings.

[(Synopsis pulled from "The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories" edited by Tara Moore)]

Format:: Unknown Binding

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 1865

Publisher:: Bentley’s Miscellany Magazine

Edition:

Language:: eng

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ISBN13:

kindle Asin:: B0DM2GLJCY

Old Hooker's Ghost; or, Christmas Gambols at Huntingfield Hall

Anonymous

3.75/5 (16 ratings)

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Bentley’s Miscellany, a monthly magazine, became known for serializing long, illustrated novels. By the 1840s its following had dropped off, but it continued to entertain middle-class readers until the title ceased in 1868. The following story, originally published in 1865, contains all of the ingredients of a decorous country-house Christmas: church-going, alms-bearing, mumming, as well as a Christmas dinner, a ghost-story circle, and a masquerade. The perfect Christmas setting serves as a frame tale for a tragic story and a family supposedly haunted by an avenging spirit. When the ghost narrative begins to invade the frame tale, the memories of past indiscretions disturb the jollity of the holiday proceedings.

[(Synopsis pulled from "The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories" edited by Tara Moore)]

Format:: Unknown Binding

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 1865

Publisher:: Bentley’s Miscellany Magazine

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:

ISBN13:

kindle Asin:: B0DM2GLJCY

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