A Christmas Carol - The Ghost Story Author:Charles Dickens The meanest man in London, Ebenezer Scrooge thinks only of making money. His heart is cold and indifferent. His world is grim and bitter, bleak and cruel. He torments his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and ignores Cratchit's cripple son, Tiny Tim. Christmas is a "Bah Humbug" to Ebenezer until one snowy Christmas Eve, when strange supernatural things... more » began to happen. Alone in his bedroom, an icy chill invades his soul as Scrooge encounters a ghost, the haunted remains of his departed business partner, Jacob Marley. Dragging the heavy chains that he forged in life, Marley tells Scrooge of the horrors of the After-World and reveals to Ebenezer that he will be visited by three dark Spirits that will bring him a warning. Scrooge dismisses Marley as a bad dream. But when the clock strikes the appointed hour the Spirits began to arrive one-byone. They have come with an unexpected message, a desperate last chance for miserly Scrooge to change his ways before he follows Marley's fate into a frozen grave of endless suffering and regrets. But, as dawn approaches, it may already be too late for Scrooge. Tiny Tim's life is slipping away« less