Trick AND Treat

A ghost story and a new recording of an old Christmas story

The Trick

The trick is that this Christmas Stories newsletter is, in fact, a Halloween Story instead.

I write a Halloween story every year. I first got into the habit when I used to do it for my co-workers at The Guardian, printing them out in little pamphlets and scattering them about the place.

These days I just share them with the whole world, which means, I suspect, that fewer people read them. I also now make little videos for them. You can see some of those on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOdoZ4kfVqLBgGBJFN1nEO_NbN9sfkZQQ, and read some of the older stories on my website: https://www.ruritania.co.uk/halloween

This year’s is essentially a slightly overcooked pun, but hopefully that is horrifying enough.

The Treat

And here’s the treat, for paid subscribers only

The full edition of the re-record of The Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope.