And now I can't use my idea about time-traveling cavemen who team up with a race of bird-humans to set up a sham wizard school in the American West in a plot to groom orphan boys to impersonate various missing and presumed dead heirs to massive fortunes around the world because SOMEBODY ALREADY DID IT BETTER

#781; The Tyranny of Quality

  — December 16th, 2011

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A good thread on Terrible Dickens Sequels

December 25, 2025 by David Malki !

Over on Bluesky, Ryan Estrada has done a deep dive on the 22 (!) Christmas stories that Dickens wrote in the aftermath of the success of A Christmas Carol.

An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history. But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels? Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.

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— Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com) December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM


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