Chill Tidings Quotes

“Can there be something tonic about pure, active fear in these times of passive, confused oppression? It is nice to choose to be frightened, when one need not be. Or it may be that, deadened by information, we are glad of these awful, intent and nameless beings as to whom no information is to be had.”
― Tanya Kirk, Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season

“All these things happen on Christmas Eve, they are all told of on Christmas Eve. For ghost stories to be told on any other evening than the evening of the twenty-fourth of December would be impossible in English society as at present regulated.”
― Tanya Kirk, Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season

“Can there be something tonic about pure, active fear in these times of passive, confused oppression? It is nice to choose to be frightened, when one need not be.”
― Tanya Kirk, Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season

“The tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve was firmly established by the Victorian period. Its origins are in the early Christian belief that souls in purgatory were most active on the day before a holy day, and thus more likely to intrude into our world.”
― Tanya Kirk, Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season

“The tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve was firmly established by the Victorian period. Its origins are in the early Christian belief that souls in purgatory were most active on the day before a holy”
― Tanya Kirk, Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season