The bachelor James sees one of these beings before his brother says, “You have seen me before to-night, and you know it!” in a story where five couriers talk on a Swiss mountain. The title character sees one of these beings in front of a red light that cries, “Below there!” before being run over by a train while imagining one of these beings in the story “The Signal-Man.” One of these beings is depicted in a John Leech illustration with a chain of keys and cashboxes. In a novella split into “staves,” one of these beings brings a character to his nephew (*) Fred’s party where he is the answer to a game of “Yes and No.” That one of these beings later shows him the children Ignorance and Want. The protagonist of one work has his question “are there no prisons” quoted back by one of these beings who shows him the Crachit family. For 10 points, name these beings that visit Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. ■END■
ANSWER: ghosts [accept phantoms or spirits] (The first story is “To Be Read at Dusk.”)
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