Publisher's Synopsis
A TRADITION OF CHRISTMAS STORIES THAT CHILL NOT FROM THE COLD, BUT FROM FEARForgotten today, for centuries winter stories-tales of the fantastic and macabre-were a requisite of the holiday season, and ghost stories by the fireside on Christmas Eve were as much a part of traditional celebrations as festively decorated trees and joyous carols. Yuletide ghost stories have grown to be forgotten, remembered now only dimly through annual retellings of the tribulations of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge at the hands of four Christmas ghosts. Yet in the season when dark nights are their longest and coldest and the upcoming new year turns thoughts to reflect on the past, what more natural atmosphere could there be for the ghostly to reach out and make itself known? Candle Game: (TM) Lost Ghosts of Christmas contains complete rules for play and features tales of Christmas frights from some of the greatest writers of the weird and macabre, including the chilling classic stories "Smee," "The Shadow," "The Old Portrait," and "Their Dear Little Ghost." Included as part of the game, these spooky tales can also be read on their own or shared as they were meant to be- in front of a flickering fire on a cold Christmas Eve, to later conjure perhaps visions of something other than sugar plums once all are nestled all snug in their beds ...
