Happy New Year Folks!\xa0 We continue our seasonal ghost stories with a handful of listener-written tales. So gather around the hearth with us again as we bring you a selection of eerie yarns, to make your timbers shiver.
Massive thanks to our fantastic contributors:
AB Finlayson:\xa0 https://abfinlayson.com\xa0 \xa0 Threads: a.b.finlayson\xa0
Craig Margolis:\xa0 X: @damnblankpage
Steve Salisbury: X: @SalisburyWriter \xa0 Threads: salisbury.writer
Christian Fieldhouse
Steven Stilbech:\xa0 X: @stilbech
Simon Curtis:\xa0 X: @simonmcurtis
Geoffrey G. N. Harrison:\xa0 https://www.deaf-duck.uk\xa0 Threads: gharrisonauthor
(In this weeks episode, we also completely forgot to mention that Simon Curtis sent us a brilliant M.R. James Christmas picture quiz!\xa0 Check the blog to see how many M.R. James stories you can recognise from his natty little sketch!)\xa0
A history of ventriloquist dummies coming to life:
It appears Gerald Kersh was one of the first to publish such a story in 1939 called \u201cThe Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy," this was adapted by screenwriter John Baines for the Dead of Night movie.
Dead of Night Movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_of_Night
Magic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(1978_film)
Goosebumps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosebumps_(film)
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