Ghost Stories for Christmas: Volume 1

An ambitious cleric murders an aged Archdeacon at Barchester Cathedral. However, he is soon stalked by a sinister black cat and by a hooded figure, both of whom seem to be embodiments of carvings on the cathedral's choir stalls.

An eighteenth-century aristocrat inherits more than he bargained for when he comes into possession of a stately home dominated by a sinister old ash tree.

A professor staying at an old hotel is driven to investigate the macabre goings-on in the room next door to his. Who, or what, is the inhabitant of room 13?

An amateur archaeologist travels to a remote seaside town in Norfolk to search for one of the three lost crowns of East Anglia, but after unearthing it he is haunted by a mysterious figure.