Charles Dickens, who published in 1843 “A Christmas Carol in Prose” about the old, gloomy miser Ebenezer Scrooge, is generally considered the founder of the Christmas story genre on a worldwide scale. Traditional Christmas (or “seasonal”) tales have a bright, joyful ending, and good always triumphs. In the following years, Dickens continued to write such stories, often co-authored, publishing them at the end of the year in journals he produced himself.