The story of the goblins who stole a sexton (from The Pickwick papers) / Charles Dickens The night before Christmas / Nikolai Gogol The blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle Christmas at Thompson Hall / Anthony Trollope Where love is, God is / Leo Tolstoy Vanka / Anton Chekhov The burglar's Christmas / Willa Cather A chapparal Christmas gift / O. Henry Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki (H.H. Munro) Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon Bella Fleace gave a party / Evelyn Waugh Green holly / Elizabeth Bowen Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever A Christmas memory / Truman Capote The carol sing / John Updike Christmas fugue / Muriel Spark The loudest voice / Grace Paley The turkey season / Alice Munro Creche / Richard Ford