• Publication: Spirits of ChristmasPublication Record # 357421
• Editors: Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell
• Date: 1995-11-00
• ISBN: 0-812-55159-1 [978-0-8125-5159-4]
• Publisher: Tor Fantasy
• Price:
  C$6.99^?C$: Canadian dollar
• Pages: 400
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Cover: Spirits of Christmas by Nicholas Jainschigg
• Notes:

  • First printing as per number line.
  • Four pages of ads for Canadian editions of TOR Books follows page 400, all in Canadian dollars.
  • Hartwell's introduction is untitled in this edition.
  • The publisher was changed on 2020-10-14 after the primary verification from Publisher: Tor, Pub Series: Tor Fantasy to Publisher: Tor Fantasy based on evidence of other books and current ISFDB policies. A further PV should verify the publisher on the title page.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (Spirits of Christmas) • (1989) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 5 • The Prescription • (1929) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 27 • The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa • (1895) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 37 • How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen • (1989) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 47 • Old Applejoy's Ghost • (1900) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 67 • Green Holly • (1944) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 81 • Floodlights • (1989) • short story by Martha Soukup
• 95 • The Real and the Counterfeit • (1895) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin
• 116 • Snow Ghosts • (1989) • short story by Richard A. Lupoff
• 130 • Unawares • (1908) • short story by Hildegarde Hawthorne
• 137 • A Midwinter's Tale • (1988) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 157 • The Haunted Man • [Christmas Books] • (1852) • novella by Charles Dickens (variant of The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 1848)
• 268 • The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story by Ch-r--s D-ck-ns • (1865) • short story by Bret Harte
• 278 • The Confessions of Ebenezer Scrooge • (1989) • short story by James Morrow
• 288 • O Come Little Children ... • (1989) • short story by Chet Williamson
• 301 • But Do You Recall ... ? • (1989) • short story by Greg Cox
• 309 • A Handful of Silver • (1967) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 319 • A Masquerade of Voices • (1988) • short story by Susan Palwick
• 336 • The Breakdown • (1976) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 348 • The Peculiar Demesne • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 385 • Icicle Music • (1989) • short story by Michael Bishop