Šťastné a hrůzostrašné vánoční horory - CDmp3 (Čte Ondřej Brousek a Dana Černá)

1| Algernon Blackwood: The Travel Bag (1908) 2| Charlotte Riddell: A Strange Christmas Game (1867/8) 3| Sir Andrew Caldecott: A Christmas Reunion (1947) 4| John Berwick Harwood: The True Story of Horror (1861) Part 1 5| John Berwick Harwood: The True Story of Horror (1861) Part 2 6| William Wilthew Fenn: The Steel Mirror or A Christmas Dream (1867) 7| Eliza Lynn Linton: Christmas Eve in the House by the Coast (1870) ***** Short dreary days, mud, frost, bare trees, and the sun often hidden persistently behind gray clouds for several days, preventing its beneficial rays from bringing even a moment's joy to the chilled earth or the downcast hearts of mortals. With the Christmas season, alongside joyful contemplation and countless traditions, increasingly giving way to hurried consumerism, darker customs also emerge, as the verses of the ballad Christmas Day from Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben remind us. It is a time when the gates of the afterlife briefly open, the souls of the deceased return to their loved ones, and from the ever-present shadows, they watch to see if they are forgotten. It is also a time when the future lifts the otherwise impenetrable veil, allowing foolishly curious souls a fleeting glimpse of what awaits them in the coming year. But woe to him who, upon cutting the apple, instead of a star…