Tom Mula’s “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” is part of a relatively modern subgenre of literature in which writers take characters from famous works and build stories around them. Here are other examples:
– “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead,” a 1967 play by Tom Stoppard that focuses on two minor characters from “Hamlet,” a sort of Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy team, who take center stage for ruminations on life and the nature of reality.
– “Jack Maggs,” a 1988 novel by Peter Carey in which the story of Pip from “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens is re-told from the standpoint of the convict who helped him.
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– “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” a 1995 fantasy novel by Gregory Maguire that tells of a little green-skinned girl named Elphaba who, misunderstood, grows up to become the evil witch killed when Dorothy throws water on her.