E.F. Benson – Bone and Sickle

A Christmas Ghost Story, VIII

By boneandsickle | December 24, 2025

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:20 — 43.9MB)

The Christmas Eve ghost story is a fine old tradition associated with Victorian and Edwardian England, one that’s been making a comeback on both sides of the Atlantic. Since 2018, Bone and Sickle has enthusiastically embraced the custom.

Our offering for 2025, is “The Other Bed” written by E.F. Benson in 1912 and read for us by Mrs. Karswell.

Previous Christmas ghost stories are linked here in our website show notes (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 , 2023, and 2024.)

A Christmas Ghost Story IV

By boneandsickle | December 20, 2021

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:12 — 41.4MB)

In keeping with the old tradition of whiling away the nights of Christmas telling ghost stories, we bring you a tale published in 1912 by E.F. Benson. Read by Mrs. Karswell, complete with sound FX and music as always.

If you’d like some additional listening of this type, we have three more recorded in previous years going back to 2018: Christmas Ghost Story III, Christmas Ghost Story II, and Christmas Ghost Story I.