Anyone familiar with Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale, A Christmas Carol, will certainly recognize the extreme similarity of Kevin Purdy’s shamelessly fun modern version, his ‘Halloween carol,’ The Legend of Decimus Croome. The story is essentially the same, but in this version Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly boss who loathes the holidays (and pretty much everything else), is replaced with one Decimus Croome, owner of the local hardware store who has hated Halloween (and all things fun) since the death of his wife years before. The formerly fun young man is now an old miser who lives only to mistreat his poor hardworking employee, Mr. Bobbich, hand out vegetables to any soul unfortunate enough to attempt to trick or treat at his house, and generally grumble and glare and scare the Dickens out of the whole town.

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