A Disney's Christmas Carol by Disney Book Group

Author:Disney Book Group
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Book Group

Scrooge struggled to avoid the light that was now streaming into his room from under the door. He jumped into his bed and attempted to pull the covers up over his head, but no matter how hard he tried, they wouldn’t reach. Some unseen force kept stopping the blankets, tugging them away from his face and forcing him to look at the bloodred glow. The spirit had indeed arrived.

The bolt suddenly unlocked itself, and the door flew open. In an instant, the room was flooded with blinding light.

From inside the sitting room, a loud voice boomed, “Enter, Scroooooooge!”

Scrooge had absolutely no intention of getting out of his bed and going into the sitting room. But he didn’t have much choice. To his horror, the bed was pulled by some unseen force and started to slide across the floor toward the door. When it got close, the bed jerked to a stop and flipped Scrooge up into the air.

He landed at the threshold of the sitting room, the blazing light almost blinding him. When he looked into the room, he could not believe his eyes. It was stretched completely out of its normal dimensions. The walls were forty feet tall and the ceiling looked like it belonged in a cathedral. Every inch of this gigantic room was decorated for Christmas. The walls were covered with fresh evergreens, holly, mistletoe, and ivy.

A roaring fire blazed in a massive fireplace. And piled in the middle of the floor as if on some sort of throne were heaps of holiday food: turkeys, geese, game hens, barrels of plum pudding, luscious pastries, and delicious steaming bowls of punch. Sitting on top of this mighty throne was a giant nearly fifteen feet tall wearing a green robe trimmed in white fur. The giant had dark brown curls that hung long and free alongside his kindly face. On top of his head sat a holly wreath draped with glistening icicles.

It was the Ghost of Christmas Present, sparkling, cheery, and joyful. He held a burning torch and lifted it to cast a light on Scrooge.

“Come in and know me better, man,” the ghost instructed Scrooge.

Scrooge realized that there was no way to avoid this so he shuffled into the room, his head hanging low as he nervously looked down at his slippers.

“I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” the spirit bellowed. “Look upon me!”

Scrooge nervously looked up at him.

“You have never seen the likes of me before?” asked the ghost.

“Never,” Scrooge answered, shaking his head.

The specter asked, “Have never walked forth with my elder brothers?”

“I don’t think I have,” Scrooge answered honestly. “You have many brothers?”

The ghost smiled. “More than eighteen hundred,” he answered with a laugh. “Eighteen hundred forty-two, to be exact.”

It took Scrooge a moment to realize that there was one brother for every Christmas. Then he noticed that the ghost had a belt with an ancient scabbard that had decayed and been eaten by rust. The scabbard was empty.

“I see you wear a scabbard but no sword,” Scrooge said.

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