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Christopher Philippo

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A historical society's website of merely 10 pages was turned by Christopher Philippo into an encyclopedic one of over 750 spanning the 17th-20th centuries. His research about forgotten 19th C. suffragist Caroline Gilkey Rogers secured a grant for a historical marker placed near her former home. He has helped with gravestone conservation in municipal, family, Catholic & Jewish cemeteries of the 18th-20th centuries in New York's Capital District, work recognized in newspaper articles & podcasts & visible from Google Satellite. He wrote the entry on Mad Love (1935) for Horror 101: The A List Of Horror Films and Monster Movies & most recently edited the The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Four. ...more

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Christopher Philippo I'd started collecting some Christmas ghost stories over a decade ago. As with many people, the line in "It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" had…moreI'd started collecting some Christmas ghost stories over a decade ago. As with many people, the line in "It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" had gotten me wondering about the tradition.

Aside from purchasing The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens, edited by Peter Haining, (back in 2008) I hadn't bought any Christmas ghost story anthologies until last year. When I would look for such ghost stories over the years, I'd mainly try finding them in old magazines and newspapers. A lot of the research I do, regardless of topic, involves searching periodicals.

In 2019, reading the first volume of The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, I returned to thinking about that song and wondered if there were any other Christmas songs referencing ghosts. Not many! A number of very old Christmas carols do make mention of ghosts or other dark themes, but are rarely sung today. I did, however, find a number of Christmas ghost poems, including ones that made that their major theme rather than a mere reference in one line.

Noticing that Valancourt Books had published Victorian Christmas ghost story anthologies three years in a row, each with a different editor, but then stopped with volume three in 2018, I put out an initial feeler and then a formal proposal. The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories Volume Four developed from there, with some changes in direction suggested by the publishers.(less)

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The Ghost of the Old Year (1909)

Frank Lebby Stanton (1857-1927) had been poet laureate of Georgia, and wrote a considerable amount of dreadful dialect poetry—including Christmas poems. Some of his poems featured ghosts, as here - a poem that is NOT in dialect, thankfully. New Year's ghost stories don't seem to have been especially common, but there were some. Both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day fall within the Twelve Days of Read more of this blog post »

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