Linking about: Victorian Christmas Books and Tales

(Readers puzzled by some of the contents should recollect that the Victorians thought the Christmas season was an excellent time for ghost and horror stories.) 

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "At Chrighton Abbey"
• Wilkie Collins, Miss Dulane and My Lord
• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
• ---, The Chimes
• ---, The Cricket on the Hearth
• ---, The Battle of Life
• ---, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
• ---, other Christmas tales at the University of Adelaide Library (scroll down)
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
• Tom Hood, "The Shadow of a Shade" (PDF)
• Alfred Paxton, "My Cousin, the Ghost, or, Something Like a Christmas Box"
• Mrs. J. H. Riddell, The Uninhabited House (PDF) (See also this image of the original cover.) 
• Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Christmas Sermon"
• W. M. Thackeray, The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
• Philip V. Allingham on Dickens' final Christmas Book. 
• The University of Glasgow's online exhibit of A Christmas Carol. 
• Eva Margareta Löfgren's personal collection of annuals. 
• Randall Stock's "Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887: An Annotated Checklist and Census"

(X-posted from The Little Professor.)