Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season

"Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season" by George Manville Fenn is a collection of Christmas-themed short stories, often with a strong moral lesson, which were an extremely popular annual tradition in Victorian England. It contains Cutting Times; or, A Frost and Thaw, Corns, A Ghastly Deed, Come Back, Upon Christmas-Eve, Haunted by Spirits, On the Down Line, Preparing for Christmas, The Ice-Breaking, A Horror of Horrors, Cabby at Christmas, Drat the Cats, An Australian Christmas, Gnashing of Teeth, and more.