By Merritt Ver Steeg My favorite thing about fall and winter is the long nights. The hours of darkness are perfect for reading Stephen King or watching horror movies on Netflix, and I’m not the first to think so. The English have a fine tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas gatherings, which explains a lot about A Christmas Carol. In that spirit, here are three classic ghost stories for long winter nights: 1)   “Smee” by A.M. Burrage. It’s…