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About this episode
Episode VII: Christmas Day Special Episode: A Strange Christmas Game by Charlotte Riddell “Weary with many nights’ watching, and tired of my solitary vigil, I dropped at last into a slumber from which I was awakened by hearing the door softly opened…” Following in the tradition of the Christmas Ghost Story, our Christmas Special Episode is Charlotte Riddell’s ‘A Strange Christmas Game’ first published in 1868. John and Clare Lester inherit the Martingdale Estate - a grand mansion of a home with a haunted secret. Forty one years previously their ancestor, Jeremy Lester, disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Find out what he wants his descendants to know in A Strange Christmas Game… ‘Unfeared: a podcast of ghost stories written by women’ is researched and hosted by Jacqueline Gabbitas with sound and production by Martin Parker. Each week Jacqueline sets off for strange-familiar places with a story, an iPhone and a microphone in hand. This episode was recorded in Jacqueline’s home, in Bedfordshire on Christmas Eve, 2022. This version of Riddell’s story is from The Open Door: Collected Ghost Stories of Charlotte Riddell. Help support Unfeared by buying us a coffee over at Kofi . You’ll find snippets about each episode’s writer as well as behind the scenes pickies. And we’ve just opened our Kofi Shop. If you’d like a FREE downloadable Do Not Disturb door sign pop over to our shop today. Follow us on Mastodon @UnfearedPod, Twitter @UnfearedPod and Instagram @UnfearedPod