Apart Enid Blyton, there are always certain books that I feel an urge to revisit this time of year -C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Dicken's The Christmas Carol and his short stories, M.R. James' Ghost Stories, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In the Willows - especially the bit where Mole and Ratty find Mole End - and various Agatha Christie's. These old favourites are the sort of literary equivalent of comfort eating, to stave off the infiltration into my mind of gloomy feelings brought on by the relentless dark, cold and wet of winter...
). The Wikipedia article has intrigued me so much that I intend to try to get it from the local library and read it over Christmas. I find that children's stories containing ghosts don't always appeal to me very much - they're too often a bit Hallowe'en-ish.... though I've always loved The Children of Green Knowe. 
