You know the story well. The spirit of a deceased business partner returns from the afterlife to admonish and warn his living former partner. Just as Jacob Marley, Mark Alexander, deceased accountant, confronts Jim Hamilton, his living partner and member of a provincial aristocracy. Mark sternly chides Jim about his lukewarm Catholicism, but more directly about Jim's indifference toward good and evil. Mark forewarns Jim that he will be visited by three spirits who will test his ability to discern good and evil. However, this is not Christmas, but Halloween, which very few remember today is also a religious holiday-All Hallows Eve, the night before All Saints Day. And unlike Dickens' Christmas spirits, who emphasize peace on earth and goodwill toward men, in a simplistic naive way, the Halloween spirits' wisdom is more complicated and critical. In fact, their lessons make Jim Hamilton confused, and quite uncomfortable. And Jim, as an everyman of contemporary American culture, squirms in his discomfort, which in the end becomes distress that motivates him to take his moral decisions more seriously.