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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is a popular franchise that began back in 1843 with Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, or simply A Christmas Story. Throughout the decades, A Christmas Carol has been adapted multiple times for stage plays, and both live-action and animated TV shows and movies.

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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens

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The Best Christmas Carol Adaptations, Ranked

Screen Rant ranks the best Christmas Carol adaptations for holiday season.

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A Christmas Carol: Ranking 18 Versions From Least To Most Accurate To The Book

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6 Darkest Film And TV Adaptations Of A Christmas Carol

Which Adaptations of A Christmas Carol, capture the spirit of the book Charles Dickens had originally written to scare people with?

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Nightwing's Death Ruins The Bat-Family's Christmas

In the latest issue of DC Comics' Batman: Urban Legends, Nightwing learns that his death effectively destroys all future Christmases for his family.

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Who is the bigger Christmas movie villain? Scrooge or The Grinch? They both do some horrible things and they both find redemption by the end ...

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No matter what version they might come from, the message and meaning of the story continue to shine even in today's media.

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Image's Karmen #3 finally reveals the purpose of the series' strange otherworldly experience, and it's a sadder version of A Christmas Carol.

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The Ghostbusters are paid to trap the Ghosts of Christmas from A Christmas Carol, a job that'll see them wrecking and then saving Christmas!

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A Christmas Carol is as iconic as it gets. George C. Scott and Patrick Stewart have the two best takes on Scrooge but one has to be the best version.

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A Christmas Carol has been adapted so many times throughout history and most of them feature a handful of really creepy scenes.

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Ebeneezer Scrooge is just as much of a classic Christmas character in movies as Santa Claus or Frosty and there have been many on-screen portrayals.

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The Walking Dead's Andrew Lincoln will take on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in a live-streamed production of Jack Thorne's A Christmas Carol.

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Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol has been adapted many times for the screen. We look at IMDb's best and worst of this Ebenezer Scrooge tale.

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