Uintah County Western Heritage Museum               Vernal, Utah

In Victorian times it wasn't truly Christmas until the goose had been stuffed and a ghost story had been told beside a crackling fire. 

Here, Jo-Anne Christensen, author of several best-selling ghost story books, revives this popular tradition. The Christmas season serves as a magical backdrop to these heartwarming stories of returning spirits...

Gifts...

• The spirit of a young man who died in a schoolyard accident returns years later to lead a friend to love
• A man mourning the death of his young son is visited by the ghost of a boy who shows him how to let the warmth of Christmas revive his lagging spirit  

Reunions....

• An enigmatic and ghostly music teacher leads a girls choir to an inspired performance at a Christmas concert
• A recurring dream encourages a man to take a Christmas trip to Las Vegas to search for his long-lost father   

Miracles...

• A delivery truck with not driver goes out of control until a ghost steers it to safety, saving the young boy inside from certain death
• An heirloom pendulum clock that stopped working at the very time its last male owner died begins working again two years later when the next male baby in the family is born  

Angels....

• An angel saves the life of a young woman when he pulls her out of the path of a vehicle
• The benevolent spirit of an elderly woman shows a harried business the true meaning of giving

Trim the tree and tell a tale of shifting shadow and magical moments. Make welcome the true spirits of the season in these Ghost Stories of Christmas                     

Paperback, c2001, 224 p. : ill. ; 13 1/2 cm.

$10.95