The Fear of Christmas Eve

Algeron blackwood is a master at building the tension. The fear out there in this tale is not climate change, that horror was yet to be invented, but something feated and primordial. Seasonal christmas games can also lend themselves to the jen of fear. For a child, hide and seek is always edged with terror, though there is no ghost in it. A bride married on christmas day hides for a game in an old oak chest, her skeleton is discovered years later. Christmas weddings were popular in victorian times. In e f Benson's story, between the lights 19 12,. one guest tells of his experiences of the year before, when it was so