Happy New Year Folks!  We continue our seasonal ghost stories with a handful of listener-written tales. So gather around the hearth with us again as we bring you a selection of eerie yarns, to make your timbers shiver.
Massive thanks to our fantastic contributors:
AB Finlayson:  https://abfinlayson.com    Threads: a.b.finlayson 
Craig Margolis:  X: @damnblankpage
Steve Salisbury: X: @SalisburyWriter   Threads: salisbury.writer
Christian Fieldhouse
Steven Stilbech:  X: @stilbech
Simon Curtis:  X: @simonmcurtis

Geoffrey G. N. Harrison:  https://www.deaf-duck.uk  Threads: gharrisonauthor

(In this weeks episode, we also completely forgot to mention that Simon Curtis sent us a brilliant M.R. James Christmas picture quiz!  Check the blog to see how many M.R. James stories you can recognise from his natty little sketch!) 
A history of ventriloquist dummies coming to life:
It appears Gerald Kersh was one of the first to publish such a story in 1939 called “The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy," this was adapted by screenwriter John Baines for the Dead of Night movie.
Dead of Night Movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_of_Night
Magic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(1978_film)
Goosebumps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosebumps_(film)

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