The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Ghost is the last of the three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption.
Representation of Death wearing a shroud - 'The Silent Highwayman' - John Leech, Punch (1858).
The London Stock Exchange in 1810.
Scrooge's bedcurtains are examined in Old Joe's rag-and-bone shop - illustration by Arthur Rackham (1915).
Jacob Marley
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Jacob Marley is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. Marley has been dead for seven years, and was a former business partner of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, the novella's protagonist. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by Marley's ghost, who wanders the Earth entwined by heavy chains and money boxes forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness. Marley tells Scrooge that he has a single chance of redemption to avoid the same fate: he will be visited by three spirits, in the hope that he will mend his ways; otherwise, he will be cursed to carry much heavier chains of his own.
Marley appears to Scrooge – illustration by Fred Barnard (1878).
Marley's Ghost - illustration by Arthur Rackham (1915).
Chained costume for Marley's Ghost from The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) – displayed at the Charles Dickens Museum, London.