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STAVE III: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS

AWAKING in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger…

I travel almost 100 miles each day I go to and from work. I’ve never had an accident. Today I’m off work and I drove the 5 minutes to the local Wal-Mart. I had an accident.

It was such a minor thing its ridiculous. I was pulling into a parking space, I miss-judged it and pulled back to adjust my position. At which point the truck in the space next to…

STAVE II: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS

WHEN Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church struck the four quarters. So he listened for the hour.

To his great astonishment the heavy bell went…

There’s really only one way to finish my Christmas ghost story series of course. It has to be A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It is after all the definitive Christmas ghost story.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

PREFACE

I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour…

Another ghost story for Christmas:

NUMBER 13
By M. R. James

Among the towns of Jutland, Viborg justly holds a high place. It is the seat of a bishopric; it has a handsome but almost entirely new cathedral, a charming garden, a lake of great beauty, and many storks. Near it is Hald, accounted one of the prettiest things in Denmark; and hard by is Finderup, where Marsk Stig murdered King Erik Glipping…