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- Well, TBH, it’s not actually based on anything in particular. However, the character of Ebenezer Scrooge and the dire straits of the poorest people living in the city of London at the time drew from real people and places. Scrooge is believed to be based on two different men.
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The first five are adaptations of ghost stories by M. R. James, the sixth is based on a short story by Charles Dickens, and the last two instalments from the 1970s are original screenplays by Clive Exton and John Bowen respectively. [5]
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Telling ghost stories on Christmas was a tradition for hundreds of years. Here, Marley's ghost surprises Ebenezer Scrooge in an illustration from the first edition of the classic tale....
Dec 21, 2021 · 50 years of Ghost Stories for Christmas, the BBC’s classic strand of festive terror. Half a century after the first official Ghost Story for Christmas, we look back at the M.R. James adaptation that started it all: Lawrence Gordon Clark’s The Stalls of Barchester.
- A Dark, Spooky Time of Year
- Effects of The Industrialization Revolution
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- The Charles Dickens Effect
- American Christmas Traditions: More Syrupy Than Spooky
- Traces of The Tradition
Like most longstanding cultural customs, the precise origin of telling ghost stories at the end of the year is unknown, largely because it began as an oral tradition without written records. But, according to Sara Cleto, a folklorist specializing in British literature and co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic, the seaso...
It was in Victorian England that telling supernatural tales at the end of the year—specifically, during the Christmas season—went from an oral tradition to a timely trend. This was in part due to the development of the steam-powered printing press during the Industrial Revolutionthat made the written word more widely available. This gave Victorians...
Telling horror-filled holiday tales continued to be a family affair in England, even when they were read rather than recited. “We know from illustrations and diaries that whole families read these periodicals together,” Moore says. The popularity of Victorian Christmas ghost stories also transcended socioeconomic status, according to Moore. They we...
Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol has forever linked the British author with the holiday season, but his contributions to Christmas in Victorian England—including the tradition of telling and reading ghost stories—extend far beyond Jacob Marley’s visit to Scrooge. In fact, Cleto says that Dickens played a “huge part” in popularizing t...
Although countless trends made their way from England to America during the Victorian era, the telling of ghost stories during the Christmas season was not one that really caught on. A Christmas Carol was an immediate best-seller in the United States, but at the time of its publication, Dickens was arguably the most famous writer in the world, and ...
Other than A Christmas Carol, there is another piece of pop culture that reflects the Victorian Christmas tradition: a single line from a song written and released in 1963 by American musicians. First recorded by Andy Williams, the song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” lists “scary ghost stories” as one of the highlights of the holiday se...
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Jan 1, 2023 · Edward Williams, gentleman and amateur golfer, lives an untroubled life as the curator of a small university museum. His speciality is the topography of the British Isles. So when an art dealer sends him details of an interesting engraving – a mezzotint – of an old country house, he’s intrigued.
Dec 19, 2020 · “It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story” – Jerome K. Jerome, 1891. In the English countryside, dinner had ended, and the company retired to the drawing room. They gathered around the...
Jun 14, 2024 · The stories are The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, The Ash-tree, Number 13, and A Warning to the Curious. The series is related to the supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas, which originally ran from 1971-78 and then from 2005-present, and which mostly adapts James's stories.
