Freshwater Seas

This presentation of the beloved
tale tells he classic story of
the long night Ebenezer Scrooge
spent with the ghosts of Christmas,
the lessons it taught him and the
change it made in his life. It tells
the story the way Dickens wrote it,
including scenes other versions skip.

There's a long tradition of English
Christmas stories, sometimes
serious, sometimes humorous,
often revolving around ghosts
and apparitions. Here Jerome
K. Jerome tells hilarious stories
from around an English Christmas
fireside.

Here are three of the most
wonderful Christmas stores ever
written, presented for you on one
disk along with two short pieces
that just can't be left out of any
Christmas collection worth it's salt.

Five wonderful stories by
Ambrose Bierce, full of vivid
characters, precise and evocative
language, surprises and suspense.
Written more than a century ago,
these stories still capture the
imagination with vivid, precise
language that bites--and may even
draw blood! Subtle musical
underscoring enhances Bierce's words.

These poems span the length
and depth of human emotion
from ancient to modern times.
The speak to men and women
who love in the voices of men
and women who not only loved,
but spoke of it with great feeling
and passion.

Here are three stories that will make
you chuckle and shiver at the same
time. Spirits can be funny when
they turn out to have issues and
problems of their own, and the
authors of these stories, John
Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells,
have a fine time putting smiles on
our faces - and wiping them off again!

Three great tales of meetings with
ghosts, and perhaps more than ghosts!
M. R. James The Haunted Doll's
House, Richard Middleton's  On
the Brighton Road, and Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman's The Vacant Lot
all go to show that meeting a ghost
can be a very dangerous thing!

Here are two terrifying and sobering
stories of ghosts who will stop at nothing!
Henry James, the American master
of psychological insight and
storytelling, and M. R. James, who
knows the dangers that can lurk in
old books and old obsessions, team
up to tell about ghosts you don't want
to meet down a dark hallway!