The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, or the Ghost of Christmas Future, is a fictional character in English novelist Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The Ghost never speaks or identifies himself by name, but Scrooge addresses him as "The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" initially and once subsequently as "The Ghost of Christmas Future."[1]
This spirit is the last of the three (after the visitation by Jacob Marley) that haunt the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, in order to prompt him to adopt a more caring attitude in life and avoid the horrid afterlife of Marley. Scrooge finds the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come the most fearsome of the spirits; he appears to Scrooge as a figure entirely muffled in a black hooded robe, except for a single gaunt hand with
