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Spooky stories featuring the supernatural were all the rage during the darkest time of the year. Towards the end of each year, as fireplaces are lit and hot cocoa is made, Americans have made it a tradition to revisit their favorite classic holiday books, movies and songs. And though ghost stories may seem out of place in present-day American holiday celebrations, they were once a Christmas staple, reaching their peak of popularity in Victorian England.
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american christmas traditions: more syrupy than spooky, charles dickens' 1843 novella "a christmas carol", effects of the industrialization revolution, history.com: how ghost stories became a christmas tradition in victorian england, stories find a wide-ranging audience, telling horror-filled holiday tales, the charles dickens effect, traces of the tradition, suspense/horror
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)