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# Episode 105: Victorian Christmas: A Strange Christmas Game
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-105-victorian-christmas-a-strange-christmas-game/
- Published: 2025-12-22T02:57:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-09T17:26:20.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Victorian era, holiday horror, horror, 19th century, Christmas, Charlotte Riddell

In which Carla celebrates the season by once again celebrating a Victorian horror author, as the Victorians would wish us to do in this season of darkness and cheer.

Sources and References:

[Books by Charlotte Riddell available from Project Gutenberg ](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2824)

[Books by Mrs. J. H. Riddell available from archive.org](https://archive.org/search?tab=texts&query=Mrs.+j.+H+.+Riddell]%28https://archive.org/search?tab=texts&query=Mrs.+j.+H+.+Riddell)

Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.

  
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