<Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present </Td> </Tr> <P> The Ghost of Christmas Yet - to - Come, also known as The Ghost of Christmas Future, sometimes The Spirit of Christmas Future or The Spirit of Christmas Yet - to - Come, is a fictional character in English novelist Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol . It is the third and final spirit to visit the miser Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve . The spirit closely resembles the Grim Reaper . </P> <P> "The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached . When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery . It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand . (...) It thrilled (Scrooge) with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the mask there were eyes staring at him ." </P> <P> Scrooge finds the Ghost Of Christmas Future the most fearsome of the Spirits; it appears to Scrooge as a figure entirely muffled in a black hooded cloak, except for a single spectral hand with which it points . Although the character never speaks in the story, Scrooge understands it, usually through assumptions from his previous experiences and rhetorical questions . It is notable that, even in satires and parodies of the tale, this spirit retains its original look . It looks the way it does because it represents what the future holds for Scrooge if he does not change his ways . </P>

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