The Sacred Carol—Revealing the Original Text Beneath the Redactions

The Sacred Carol exposes Charles Dickens's theft and reworking of A Christmas Carol, while introducing readers to the real American authors—Mathew and Abby Whittier. Through a meticulous study of Dickens's own handwritten manuscript draft, the author has deciphered the words Dickens scratched out and replaced, revealing, in many cases, the Whittiers' original text beneath.

Whatever is magical, heartwarming and spiritually powerful in A Christmas Carol originated with Mathew and Abby. Whatever is fantastical, cartoonish, or coarse came from Dickens. The graceful, luminous prose was theirs; the bombastic and illogical "patches" were his.

This is not merely a theory. Instances of proof emerge time and again from beneath these redacted words and phrases. And this volume offers something more: a complete, carefully-deciphered manuscript transcription, reproduced in full as an Appendix.

Because the author had already archived so much of Mathew and Abby Whittier's published work, he was able to draw specific style comparisons to make the case even stronger. Yet it is one thing to disprove Dickens' original authorship; it is quite another to see A Christmas Carol come alive as the sacred spiritualist redemption story it was meant to be.

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Stephen Sakellarios holds a master's in counseling, and has studied Eastern mysticism, death and dying, and paranormal phenomena for over 50 years. He discovered 19th-century American writers Mathew Franklin Whittier and his wife, Abby Poyen Whittier, in 2005, intensively researching their lives and respective literary legacies from 2009 to 2025. He has discovered well over 3,000 of their anonymously-published works.

Stephen lives in Portland, Maine where the Whittiers had also lived, and has personally seen many of the sites in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire connected with their lives.