The Ghost of Christmas Past

Stumbling through different Inktober prompts, I came across one made by MiaMagdalena HERE and its prompt for today is Ghost, so I conjured up a ghost - the Ghost of Christmas Past, that is - but not the one from Mr. Dickens' classic tale. Instead, this wretched beauty is the titular character from an unfinished short story I've had lying around... that perhaps I can actually get around to completing this year (fingers crossed)... It's a horror yarn that's basically Charles Dickens meets Edgar Allen Poe (but not nearly as good as anything those guys ever wrote lol) with a protagonist similar to Ebenezer Scrooge, who dreads the annual Yuletide celebration... and for a terrifyingly good reason.