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The Long Return of Gabriel Grub

The Long Return of Gabriel Grub

A Christmas Eve Story

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Andrew Roycroft
Dec 23, 2024
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This Christmas tale is offered for the Christmas Eve entertainment of the esteemed readers of The Sounding Board. It takes as its starting point the short Christmas story by Charles Dickens ‘The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton’. An article about this story can also be found here.

Ever since he had left, Gabriel Grub was set on returning. Ten lon…

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