The Christmas season, not Hallowe'en, was once considered the spookiest time of year
Posted: Jan 01, 2021 8:00 AM NT | Last Updated: January 1 In Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts on Christmas Eve. This scene of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's 2017 adaptation shows Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Present. (Dylan Hewlett/Royal MTC) Have you ever listened closely to the lyrics of It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year? One line in particular might surprise you: There'll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. Written in 1962, the seasonal standard refers to what was by then already a...