‘A sad tale’s best for winter,’ says little Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale: ‘I have one/ Of sprites and goblins…’ (He is dead by Act III.)
Ghost stories have always been best told on a midwinter night — preferably aloud, in a group drawn close together around a blazing fire.
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