Thanks to Project Gutenberg for the use of this story and so many others via Project Gutenberg. A long-standing Victorian tradition has been the telling of ghost stories on Christmas. I can't think of a more fitting way for Uncomfortably Dark to celebrate the holiday. I hope you enjoy these. A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the

Thanks to Project Gutenberg for the use of this story and so many others via Project Gutenberg. A long-standing Victorian tradition has been the telling of ghost stories on Christmas. I can't think of a more fitting way for Uncomfortably Dark to celebrate the holiday. I hope you enjoy these. Merry Christmas to Everyone! What Christmas Is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left n

Thanks to Project Gutenberg for the use of this story and so many others via Project Gutenberg. A long-standing Victorian tradition has been the telling of ghost stories on Christmas. I can't think of a more fitting way for Uncomfortably Dark to celebrate the holiday. I hope you enjoy these. A Child's Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas One Christmas was so much like the other, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the v

Welcome to Latham's Last Words, where I give you my last words on books I've enjoyed. This week's offering will be a little different. I will be giving short reviews on the Amazon Original Stories Black Stars series. Six short stories by black authors and all amazing. New worlds. Alternate realities. Technology. Magic. Enjoy the journeys these stories provide. The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Very eye opening alternate reality story where male self pleasuring is illegal