Christmas at Gravesend — Amanda DeWees

Intrepid Victorian sleuth and medium Sybil Ingram is reunited with an old friend in this heartwarming and slightly spooky Christmas short story. Plus: a bonus Sybil Ingram story is included!

In December 1873, Sybil's former dressmaker, Clara Graves -- now a baroness -- invites Sybil and Roderick to celebrate Christmas at Gravesend Hall, notorious for being cursed. Anxious for her old friend, Sybil is quick to accept. Though Clara insists that nothing is wrong, once the revelers are snowbound, there are cries in the night and an eerie phantom lady walking the halls. But though Sybil is ready to come to grips with a ghost, not all is as it seems...and when she and Clara team up to solve the mystery, they find a way to bring a heartbroken young mother the best Christmas gift she could imagine.

Bonus story: In “When Soft Voices Die,” Sybil encounters an unusual ghost in a Hudson River Valley home just after the events of Nocturne for a Widow.