Description

Ten-yr-old Jessica Atkins desires a beast for Holiday. Not really a big, mean monster; more of the pleasant child to play with when she comes back home from college, and perhaps scare away the rats who reside in her big old Birmingham house.But the old housekeeper, Mrs. Murgatroyd, cautions her against wanting to get a monster in this residence. Precisely a hundred years back the Christmas Thingy visited this very home and took out with lots of Christmas presents.As Mrs.