Christmas Tales is a novel I wrote
Informations:
1. This novel is a sequel/spin-off book of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). And even the sequel novel of Halloween Legends.
2. This novel consists of four chapters, each with a story.
3. This no...
Jack Skellington: This is a story that you have probably heard many times in many versions, because this story is the cornerstone of Christmas. But I think it would be a crime not to tell this story, so let's get started!
This story opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred-the son of Fan, Scrooge's dead sister. He turns away two men who seek a donation from him to provide food and heating for the poor and only grudgingly allows his overworked, underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit, Christmas Day off with pay to conform to the social custom.
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That night Scrooge is visited at home by Marley's ghost, who wanders the Earth entwined by heavy chains and money boxes forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness.
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Marley tells Scrooge that he has a single chance to avoid the same fate: he will be visited by three spirits and must listen or be cursed to carry much heavier chains of his own.
The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of Scrooge's boyhood, reminding him of a time when he was more innocent. The scenes reveal Scrooge's lonely childhood at boarding school, his relationship with his beloved sister Fan, and a Christmas party hosted by his first employer, Mr Fezziwig, who treated him like a son. Scrooge's neglected fiancée Isabel is shown ending their relationship, as she realises that he will never love her as much as he loves money.
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