18 books like Christmas Carol and Other Stories
A Christmas Carol
A retelling of the story about a miser whose life is changed by Christmas.
Shares: Scrooge, Christmas, London, British and irish fiction
The Canterville Ghost
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance.
Shares: British and irish fiction, Ghosts, England, Children's fiction
The Cricket on the Hearth
One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
Shares: Christmas, British and irish fiction, England, Children's fiction
The shadow cabinet
"Rory, Callum and Boo are still reeling from a series of tragic events, while new dangers lurk around the city from Jane and her nefarious organization"--
Rory, Callum, and Boo are still reeling from a series of tragic events while new dangers lurk around the city from Jane and her nefarious organization. The plot contains mild profanity and violence. Book #3
Shares: London, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Ghost Belonged to Me
In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth, adventurer Miles Armsworth, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost.
Shares: Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
Shares: Christmas, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Puck of Pook's Hill
The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, …
Shares: British and irish fiction, England, Children's fiction
Fear Street Super Chiller - Silent Night
Fear Street Super Chiller
Spoiled rich girl Reva is in for a not-so Merry Christmas when someone begins stalking her.
Shares: Christmas, Children's fiction
The Christmas Mystery
Joachim discovers a magic Advent calendar which contains the story of a little girl who traveled through time to be present at the birth of Jesus.
Shares: Christmas, Children's fiction
Goodbye Mister Chips
Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher, who never veers from his established routines. Then he meets Katherine, who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the hours spent in the schoolroom.
Shares: British and irish fiction, England, English literature, Children's fiction
Christina's Ghost
Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.
Shares: Ghosts, Children's fiction
Double trouble squared
July and Liberty Starbuck, twins, and their family are busy exploring the streets of London where their father has accepted a new job. A voice that only the twins can hear needs their help. In their efforts to provide this, they use their individual talents, to include telepathy, to uncover a heretofore undiscovered manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, along with the ghost of the forgotten twin…
Shares: London, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Wind in the Willows
The adventures of four amiable animals, Rat, Toad, Mole and Badger, along a river in the English countryside.
Shares: Christmas, England, Children's fiction
The ghost wore gray
Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her best buddy Chris Gurley are having a hard time. The play that led to them meeting a ghost and unraveling a mystery has ended. Now the rest of the summer looms ahead, looking dull after their great adventure.Luckily, Nine's dad gets a job designing the restoration of an old – and distressingly run down – hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Nine and Chris are more than…
Shares: Ghosts, Children's fiction
Dracula / Sign of Four
The Wayside Foundation for the Arts, Gerald Slavet, artistic director presents "Dracula," dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's world famous novel, directed by Barnett A. Epstein, scenic design by Phil Kagan, lighting by Barnett A. Epstein, costumes by Kaye Roscoe.
Shares: Comics & graphic novels, British and irish fiction, England, Children's fiction
War Game
Based on a true account of a soccer game played between the German and English troops in no-man's land on Christmas Day in 1914 during World War I, this book tells the story of four young men who have recently enlisted and have found that war is not as glamorous as they had once thought. The young men get to realize their dream of playing soccer for England when the English and German sides hold…
Shares: Christmas, Children's fiction
The death collector
Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.
Shares: London, Children's fiction
Merry Christmas, Strega Nona
Big Anthony plans a surprise Christmas party for Strega Nona.
Shares: Christmas, Children's fiction