This is Avery After Dark and I am your host, Avery Ross. We have another very special Christmas episode today.

So if you're traveling this week for family get-togethers or you're in the kitchen, cooking, and need some entertainment, or you just find yourself needing an escape, this episode is for you.

You know, you really can't talk about Christmas, the holiday season, ghosts, spirits, spooky stories without talking about a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Many are familiar with the classic tale of the old greedy Ebenezer Scrooge, who, through a

ghostly visit from his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas

past, present, and future, achieves redemption.

A Christmas Carol is a really touching and moving story and was described as,

quote, a national benefit to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness. And the actual

novella is spoken in much older terminology. It was first published in London in December 1843 and

is quite lengthy.

So for today's episode, I found a much easier to digest summarized version of the

novella that still hits all the points and tells the story really well.

But for time's sake, we're going to jump into this summarized version.

And like I said, A Christmas Carol was written in 1843. That's a long time ago.

But as is with most brilliant writers such as Charles Dickens, their stories transcend time,

as every single theme that is touched on in this book is more relevant today than ever. So let's get right into it.

This is a Christmas Carol.

On a dark and dreary Christmas Eve, a hard-hearted, solitary old miser named Ebenezer

Scrooge sits working in his accounting house. Though the name over the accounting firm's door reads,

Scrooge and Marley,

Jacob Marley is long gone.

He died seven years prior.

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