The Doll's Ghost

1896
Francis Marion Crawford

“The Doll’s Ghost” first appeared in the 1896 Christmas supplement of the Illustrated London News, and again in Crawford’s posthumous 1911 collection Wandering Ghosts (Uncanny Tales in the UK). In his lifetime, Crawford was well known and well regarded for his historical novels and romances; today, he is mostly known for his supernatural tales, especially “The Upper Berth,” which M.R. James called a “horrid story” — in the positive sense of “full of horror” — in “Some Remarks on Ghost Stories.”

Part 2: The Haunting

Read by Christine Pilgrim as part of the Roedde House Museum Christmas Gazette 2021 Issue #2