A Christmas Carol is perhaps the most loved classic holiday story of all time. Cassandra Harold, once again shares her narration of the full version of Ebenezer Scrooge's tale by Charles Dickens.

Did you know that while the phrase "Merry Christmas" first appeared in written form in 1536, it was Charles Dickens who helped popularize its use in Victorian society through A Christmas Carol? Did you know the term "Scrooge" came to be synonymous with a miser and was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary with this meaning in 1982?

Enjoy this super sized Christmas edition of Unpleasant Dreams.

Merry Christmas and God Bless Us Every One!

This episode includes the complete story.

A Christmas Carol  by Charles Dickens, originally published 1843 and is in the Public Domain.

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Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain

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