More consistent than volume one, volume two was equally nice for this time of year. A story here and there in between cooking Christmas dinner and doing chores, or one with hot cocoa before going to bed. Ghost stories were an annual tradition in Victorian newspapers and magazines, so maybe it'll be one for me as well?

Favorites:

Number Two, Melrose Square by Theo Gift aka Dora Havers (1880): The woman protagonist, a translator working at the British Museum (love!), rents an apartment in Bloomsbury and encounters unpleasant visitations. Genuinely creepy and spine-tingling.

Haunted! by Coulson Kernahan (1885): Feels like a nightmare or a fever dream, where you're drawn into the narrator's madness.

Christmas Eve in Beach House by Eliza Lynn Linton (1870): Set in the Cornish coast, this is moody and atmospheric. A married couple buys a house, but it comes with the unpleasant company of a dark character.