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The Catherine Crowe Library presents her books in full,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Enter the shadowed world of Catherine Crowe, where drawing rooms conceal mysteries, servants know more than their masters, and the boundary between the seen and unseen is never quite secure.<br /><br />The Catherine Crowe Library presents her books in full, restoring to life the strange tales, social intrigues, crimes, hauntings, and hidden histories that made Crowe one of the most intriguing literary voices of the nineteenth century.<br /><br />Come, then, and listen, for there are more things in the quiet house, the darkened chamber, and the human heart than daylight readily reveals.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Fiction"/><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>5dc7174f-b695-5231-8cf7-b333097f65c2</podcast:guid><itunes:type>serial</itunes:type><item><title>Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas - Preface: Round The Fire</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ghosts-and-family-legends-a-volume-for-christmas-preface-round-the-fire--75217327</link><description><![CDATA[In which the author reflects upon a wintry gathering in a stately northern mansion, where a grave misfortune prompts a circle of guests to muse upon life's fleeting nature and the mysteries that bridge the present with the beyond. From sceptics and believers alike, a rich array of personal ghostly experiences and ancestral legends are shared, lending a curious charm to the Christmas fireside discourse.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75217327</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:18:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75217327/01_ghosts_and_family_legends_a_volume_for_christmas_by_catherine_crowe.mp3" length="1804800" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a8823a30-a6e0-438e-9bb5-f0893cd1fc47/a8823a30-a6e0-438e-9bb5-f0893cd1fc47.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a8823a30-a6e0-438e-9bb5-f0893cd1fc47/a8823a30-a6e0-438e-9bb5-f0893cd1fc47.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a8823a30-a6e0-438e-9bb5-f0893cd1fc47/a8823a30-a6e0-438e-9bb5-f0893cd1fc47.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Catherine Crowe</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In which the author reflects upon a wintry gathering in a stately northern mansion, where a grave misfortune prompts a circle of guests to muse upon life's fleeting nature and the mysteries that bridge the present with the beyond. From sceptics and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In which the author reflects upon a wintry gathering in a stately northern mansion, where a grave misfortune prompts a circle of guests to muse upon life's fleeting nature and the mysteries that bridge the present with the beyond. From sceptics and believers alike, a rich array of personal ghostly experiences and ancestral legends are shared, lending a curious charm to the Christmas fireside discourse.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>226</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dee960b59af9197fefc343c23ff9714b.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas - Round The Fire: First Evening (The Lover's Farewell; The Appointment Kept)</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ghosts-and-family-legends-a-volume-for-christmas-round-the-fire-first-evening-the-lover-s-farewell-the-appointment-kept--75217328</link><description><![CDATA[In which a company of friends settle to exchange personal and credibly attested stories of ghostly visitations and spectral phenomena, setting the stage with an account of a poignant and mysterious apparition connected to love and loss. 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