This classic tale written by Charles Dickens recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge a cold-hearted old miser who hates Christmas, exploits his clerk Bob Cratchit, and mocks those who seek to help the poor. On Christmas Eve, though, he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns him that his selfishness will lead him to suffer in the afterlife and adds that Scrooge will be further haunted by three other spirits for the good of his soul.