The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas

Edward Gorey’s own off-kilter Christmas tale is a riff on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. In this account, a Scrooge-like miser is guided by familiar ghosts to see the Christmas That Never Was, the Christmas That Isn’t, and the Christmas That Never Will Be, but Gorey’s characteristically wry storytelling skills twist the otherwise familiar plot into a surreally creeped-out alternative version.