Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost Hunter expands the original text of Charles Dicken’s classic with all-new scenes of malicious ghosts, soul devouring wraiths, deadly doppelgangers and other terrors from the netherworld. Our story opens seven years after Marley’s violent death. Ebenezer Scrooge has given up ghost hunting and embraced an inevitable slow death by alcohol poisoning. When the spectre of his deceased partner appears to him on Christmas Eve, Scrooge learns that he must face three Ghosts – one who will try to help him, one who will try to harm him and one that cannot be killed.
In a story that spans a lifetime of torment, Scrooge must face the demons of his past and his failures in the present in order to prevent the horror that is his future. The stakes for Scrooge’s soul have never been higher than in this wicked retelling of the classic, A Christmas Carol.
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This is the start of the story and right off the bat we've got ghouls and netherworld creatures. We also learn that Marley was the apprentice, and died.
Regret is a big part of Scrooge's character in this version, and he expresses that through drinking, something Dickens' Scrooge would have scoffed at.
Book Excerpt
Ebenezer Scrooge: The Ghost Hunter
Scrooge knew he was dead. Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. While the darkness of ghouls and netherworld creatures had touched his life first, it had been Marley who was Scrooge’s most trusted comrade in combating these evil forces. The nature of their business set the two apart from the rest of the living world and as a result, the funeral was quite bereft of mourners, friends or anyone not being paid in the execution of the death rites. Sometimes it did not seem fair to Scrooge, that the apprenticed partner had fallen first, and he more often than not, on these sad occasions, found himself deep in his cups to forget.
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