Gorey has never been funnier or more “impossible to resist” (Boston Herald) than in this peculiar retelling of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Edmund Gravel, known as the Recluse of Lower Spigot, is preparing to take tea by himself on Christmas Eve. Just as he is waiting for the week's teabag to steep, the tea-cosy twitches and from beneath it leaps a creature - the Bahhum Bug. Then they are joined by the Ghost of Christmas past.