A Christmas carol: Three ghosts take the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on a tour of his own life in the hopes of reawakening his Christmas spirit, before he meets the fate of his deceased partner Jacob Marley. The Chimes: a goblin story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in. The holly tree: "In Dickens's The Holy-Tree, the narrator tells of his travels, and particularly of his stay at an inn in which he was once snowed up for a time. He meets some other travelers, and they naturally begin terrifying each other with tales of murderous criminals." --provided by Google Books.