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scans_dailyMaking up for being so late yesterday by being a little earlier today, to cover....
Eight Scans of Solstice - Favorite Ghost Story
Ghost stories have been part of the festive season for centuries. Gathering around to tell stories to scare you (but not necessarily TOO much), and to make you want to snuggle down next to the fire a little closer. Stories of lost loved ones, or those who were not missed at all
The Victorians had a special penchant for it, with Charles Dickens writing perhaps the best known ghost story of all time in "A Christmas Carol" (Which of course reached perfection in it's interpretation with Michael Caine and the Muppets... though Alastair Sim runs only a hairsbreadth behind.) but he also wrote many more, including the classic "The Signalman". And that's even before we get on to the MR James whose chilling works are absolutely terifying. (Seriously, if you haven't read them, give them a try)
But this is Scans_Daily, not the Times Literary Supplement, so we're here to focus on comics based ghost stories.
I have one to post later, but alas, one of my favourites cannot be posted due to community rules, part of Peter David's thematically, if not literally, connected trilogy about loss and mourning; Tribute the First, Second and Third.
Of these, only Tribute the Second has an actual ghost in it, as Doug Ramsey (in one of the few stories I've ever read told from the ghosts POV) comes to terms with being dead, and how life moves on for everyone else. The other two, the first where Jean Grey and a Holocaust survivor talk about the many different people they've been and roles they've played, and how they carry their own ghosts, and the third, as Mystique says goodbye to the recently killed Destiny, are powerful stories in their own right and I would suggest finding the back issues they're in as I don't think they've ever been reprinted. (Tribute the First is in X-Factor Annual #5, Tribute the Second in New Mutants Annual #6 and Tribute the Third is in X-Factor Annual #6)
So what ghost stories have lingered with you, please share your haunted or haunting favourites!
Eight Scans of Solstice - Favorite Ghost Story
Ghost stories have been part of the festive season for centuries. Gathering around to tell stories to scare you (but not necessarily TOO much), and to make you want to snuggle down next to the fire a little closer. Stories of lost loved ones, or those who were not missed at all
The Victorians had a special penchant for it, with Charles Dickens writing perhaps the best known ghost story of all time in "A Christmas Carol" (Which of course reached perfection in it's interpretation with Michael Caine and the Muppets... though Alastair Sim runs only a hairsbreadth behind.) but he also wrote many more, including the classic "The Signalman". And that's even before we get on to the MR James whose chilling works are absolutely terifying. (Seriously, if you haven't read them, give them a try)
But this is Scans_Daily, not the Times Literary Supplement, so we're here to focus on comics based ghost stories.
I have one to post later, but alas, one of my favourites cannot be posted due to community rules, part of Peter David's thematically, if not literally, connected trilogy about loss and mourning; Tribute the First, Second and Third.
Of these, only Tribute the Second has an actual ghost in it, as Doug Ramsey (in one of the few stories I've ever read told from the ghosts POV) comes to terms with being dead, and how life moves on for everyone else. The other two, the first where Jean Grey and a Holocaust survivor talk about the many different people they've been and roles they've played, and how they carry their own ghosts, and the third, as Mystique says goodbye to the recently killed Destiny, are powerful stories in their own right and I would suggest finding the back issues they're in as I don't think they've ever been reprinted. (Tribute the First is in X-Factor Annual #5, Tribute the Second in New Mutants Annual #6 and Tribute the Third is in X-Factor Annual #6)
So what ghost stories have lingered with you, please share your haunted or haunting favourites!
