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READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com In 1943 Philip Van Doren Stern decided to give the gift of words to his closest friends for the holidays when he printed up 200 copies of a story called 'The Greatest Gift' and sent them out as a 21-page Christmas card, which became the basis for well-loved movie "It's A Wonderful Life" DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: THE GREATEST GIFT - A Christmas Tale by Philip Van Doren Stern Most of us know of the 1946 movie "It's A Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart, and perhaps you also have seen the 1977 movie "It Happened One Christmas" starring Marlo Thomas, which is take on the 1946 movie. If you haven't seen either or both of these movies you are in for a real treat! Go find them now and watch! Many people do not know that these movies are based on a Christmas Card/. In 1943 Philip Van Doren Stern decided to give the gift of words to his closest friends for the ho...

READ ALONG WITH STORY AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com The owners of Harrowby Hall had done their utmost to rid themselves of the damp and dewy lady who rose up out of the best bedroom floor at midnight, but without avail. They had tried stopping the clock, so that the ghost would not know when it was midnight; but she made her appearance just the same, with that fearful miasmatic personality of hers, and there she would stand until everything about her was thoroughly saturated. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL by John Kendrick Bangs The trouble with Harrowby Hall was that it was haunted, and, what was worse, the ghost did not content itself with merely appearing at the bedside of the afflicted person who saw it, but persisted in remaining there for one mortal hour before it would disappear. It never appeared except on Christmas Eve, and then as the clock was striking twelve, in which respect alone was it lacking in that originality which in th...

READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com An 1887 Victorian poem on the subject of ghosts from the darker side of humanity.  Creatures of mist, half credited; Our faint form flings No shadow in moonlight on the bed We visit; noiseless is our tread, Who come from deserts of the dead, Where no bird sings... DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: GHOSTS Anonymous from 'Ghost Stories and Presentiments' 1887  Creatures of mist, half credited; Our faint form flings No shadow in moonlight on the bed We visit; noiseless is our tread, Who come from deserts of the dead, Where no bird sings.  For ever, in dark and cold forlorn, We wander there; Pale spectres, wondrous pale and worn, As Privet flowers at even shorn Are pale when Phosphor fails with morn, We who once were. ...

READ ALONG AT: www.StoryLinkRadio.com A doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: THE SHADOW IN THE SEA by William Hope Hodgson I went up the ladder, and walked across to where the Skipper and the Second Mate stood talking earnestly, by the rail. Tammy kept behind. As I came near to them, I caught two or three words, though I attached no meaning then to them. They were: ". . . send for him." Then the two of them turned and looked at me, and the Second Mate asked what I wanted. "I want to speak to you and the Old M—Captain, Sir," I answered. "What is it, Jessop?" the Skipper inquired. "I scarcely know how to put it, Sir," I said. "It's—it's about these—these things." "What things? Speak out, man:' he said. "Well, Sir," I blurt...

[READ ALONG WITH PODCAST BELOW] In Providence, Rhode Island, Robert Blake, a young writer with an interest in the occult, becomes fascinated by a large disused church on Federal Hill which he can see from his lodgings on the city's Upper East side. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history involving a cult called the Church of Starry Wisdom and is dreaded by the local migrant inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil.  The being can only go abroad in darkness, and is hence constrained to the tower at night by the presence of the lights of the city. However, when the city electric power is weakened during a thunderstorm, the local people are terrified by the sounds coming from the church. [all audio ©StoryLinkRadio] DOWNLOAD READ ALONG WITH PODCAST: I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge or lustre or name. Cautious investigators will he...