# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Winter's Wake - A Celebration of the Seasonal Ghost Story
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 21 Dec, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Though most commonly associated with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the tradition of winter’s tales – scary stories to tell in the dark – goes back hundreds of years, and evolved into the Christmas ghost story in the Victorian era and beyond. Authors such as M.R. James, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Gaskell and Canada’s own Robertson Davies excelled at the Christmas ghost story and were prolific writers of tales meant to be read aloud by the fireside during the Yuletide season. In that tradition, Kraken Underground and Spectacular Optical bring you the first annual Winter’s Wake: a celebration of the seasonal ghost story in all its forms, but with a special emphasis on the oral tradition of gathering in the dark and the quiet to listen to chilling tales read aloud. 
The winter ghost story tradition extended to radio, and later television, in the form of the BBC’s annual A Ghost Story for Christmas series, a staple of 1970s television that was revived in the mid-aughts. In 2023, Pender Island’s own Kier-La Janisse launched a North American counterpart on horror streaming channel Shudder called The Haunted Season, the second episode of which — Janisse’s own adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Occupant of the Room — will have its island premiere as part of Winter’s Wake. 
So join us for some wintry tales of terror along with themed drinks (the “Marley’s Ghost”, anyone?), snacks, and a wealth of seasonal door prizes courtesy of our event sponsors.

Event will be in the Bistro, doors will open at 3:15, the show starts at 4.
Full bar and menu will be available.
Tickets available at winterswake.ca or at Talisman (starting November 2).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/galiano-island/winters-wake-a-celebration-of-the-seasonal-ghost-story/200029137162646
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, christmas, nonprofit, christmas-carols
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 48

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://winterswake.ca/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=galiano+island-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Galiano Island
- **state**: BC
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Port Browning Marina Resort
- **lat**: 48.776599201889
- **long**: -123.274792185
- **full address**: Port Browning Marina Resort, 4605 Oak Rd., V0N 2M0,Pender Island, British Columbia, Galiano Island, Canada

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Kraken Underground (https://allevents.in/org/kraken-underground/21931580)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 21 Dec, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Port Browning Marina Resort, 4605 Oak Rd., V0N 2M0,Pender Island, British Columbia, Galiano Island, Canada
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Kraken Underground
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, christmas, nonprofit, christmas-carols
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Winter's Wake - A Celebration of the Seasonal Ghost Story ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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