Christmas Carol (version 06)

A miserly old man is given one night to face what he has become. Ebenezer Scrooge hasn't a kind word for anyone, not even his nephew, not even the poor. He calls Christmas a humbug. But on a freezing Christmas Eve, the ghost of his dead partner appears in chains, warning of worse to come. Three spirits arrive to show Scrooge what he was, what he is, and what he will become if he doesn't change. This is the ghost story Dickens invented for the ages, a tale so potent it practically invented the modern Christmas. But don't be fooled by its warmth: there is genuine terror here, genuine darkness. The future ghost says nothing and shows Scrooge a tombstone with his own name. This is a story about the possibility of redemption, about the radical idea that it is never too late to become a better person. Generations have returned to it not because they need to believe in ghosts, but because they need to believe that change is possible.