S3 Ep27: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt2)

The Failing Writers Podcast

Happy New Year Folks! We continue our seasonal ghost stories with a handful of listener-written tales. So gather around the hearth with us again as we bring you a selection of eerie yarns, to make your timbers shiver.

Massive thanks to our fantastic contributors:

AB Finlayson: https://abfinlayson.com Threads: a.b.finlayson

Craig Margolis: X: @damnblankpage

Steve Salisbury: X: @SalisburyWriter Threads: salisbury.writer

Christian Fieldhouse

Steven Stilbech: X: @stilbech

Simon Curtis: X: @simonmcurtis
Geoffrey G. N. Harrison: https://www.deaf-duck.uk Threads: gharrisonauthor
(In this weeks episode, we also completely forgot to mention that Simon Curtis sent us a brilliant M.R. James Christmas picture quiz! Check the blog to see how many M.R. James stories you can recognise from his natty little sketch!)

A history of ventriloquist dummies coming to life:
It appears Gerald Kersh was one of the first to publish such a story in 1939 called “The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy," this was adapted by screenwriter John Baines for the Dead of Night movie.

Dead of Night Movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_of_Night

Magic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(1978_film)

Goosebumps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosebumps_(film)

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