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Spooky stories aren’t just for Halloween.
Each Friday leading up to Christmas, the McCarl Coverlet Gallery at Saint Vincent College will present a new podcast featuring the reading of a haunted holiday tale from times past.
“Every Christmas, we look forward to the spooky and fascinating tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his encounters with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future,” said gallery curator Lauren Churilla. “However, Dickens’ spooky tale wasn’t the first ghost story to be read around a Christmas fire.”
Beginning this week, the podcasts will be uploaded weekly and available for listening on the gallery’s website, mccarlgallery.org, as well as on its social media accounts.
The series will include four readings:
• “The Tapestried Chamber,” by Sir Walter Scott — General Browne, newly returned to England from America’s revolutionary war, spends a night in a room decorated with beautiful tapestries in the home of an old school friend, to be visited by the ghostly figure of an old crone in old-fashioned garb.
• “The Haunted Rock,” by W.W. Fenn —A tale that asks the question, “what good ever comes from these departed souls’ revisiting the glimpses of the moon, and by sights, signs, or sounds, holding converse with us of the visible world?”
• “How Peter Parley Laid a Ghost,” by Anonymous — A ghostly tale based on the writings of American author Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known by his pseudonym Peter Parley.
• “The Ghost’s Summons,” by Ada Buisson — On an icy winter night, a young doctor is offered a large sum to attend a mysterious patient on his death bed.
Jared Bundy, a Saint Vincent alumnus and director of digital marketing at the Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau, will narrate.
“The tradition of holiday ghost stories dates back much further than the Victorians,” Churilla said. “During the darkest times of the year, people believed the distance between the living and the dead closed.
“Our modern Christmas emerged in the Victorian Western world. With the new-found trappings of a commercialized Christmas involving the sending of gifts, cards and merrymaking, the holiday ghost stories emerged in the press with gusto.
“Ghost stories populated periodicals, and readers had an insatiable appetite for the holiday season’s spooky tales,” she added. “It is estimated that between 50 and 70% of these stories were published by women.”
Details: 724-805-2188 or info@mccarlgallery.org
Shirley McMarlin is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Shirley at 724-836-5750, smcmarlin@triblive.com or via Twitter .
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