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This year spooky artist Sian Ellis was kind enough to create printable progress sheets for both challenges. There are many ways to keep track of your stories, whether privately in a notebook or publicly on social media. Below are some progress sheets, social media information, some sources on the history on the tradition, and possible stories to read. The goal of this? To have fun, resurrect an old tradition, and to introduce yourself to new writers. You might choose to read fiction and/or nonfiction spooky stories.You could read 25 (or 12) stories in one week. You might double, triple, or quadtrouple stories on slow days or makeup days.You might read from one anthology/story collection or multiple anthologies/story collections.Your reading style and availability may be different than mine, so I gave the challenge additional options: Feel free to read whatever spooky stories you want, Christmas-themed and otherwise. Or, you can choose to read 12 spooky short stories (for the 12 Days of Christmas).īelow I have provided some books and FREE sites where you can find some spooky Christmas stories (I’ll continue to update this list throughout December). You’ll read 25 spooky short stories each day this December until Christmas. If you participated in #31SpookyStories, it is basically the same thing. (To learn more, please check out the articles below that ground this tradition in interesting historical research.) Whatever you need to do to bring this tradition back to life and hopefully start a new spooky tradition in your home. Maybe you’ll read the stories aloud around the fire with family and friends. Maybe you’ll read them in your comfy chair with hot chocolate or wassail. In 2017, Ghostland author Colin Dickey made a call to resurrect the tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas, so I’m challenging y’all to read 25 ghost (or just scary) stories this Christmas season (or 12). But they’re packaged in the cozy trappings of the holiday.” The tradition never really made it over to America (Puritans ruin the party again), but ghost stories around Christmas were especially popular in 19th Century British books, periodicals, homes, and theatres. The origins, as Kat Eschner writes, are “about darker, older, more fundamental things: winter, death, rebirth, and the rapt connection between a teller and his or her audience. It’s true! The tradition of telling ghost stories around Christmas time probably came before the holiday itself and definitely before the commercialized version of today.