Step into a Christmas tale unlike any you’ve ever known – where Dickensian grandeur collides with the shadow-soaked carnival of Tim Burton . In a city where neon replaces starlight and greed drowns out carols, two misfits rise: Jasper Grinlow , a ragged trickster in a tattered Santa coat, and Temperance Cratch , a barmaid turned avenging sprite with laughter sharp as broken glass. Together they crash banquets, menace business moguls, haunt courthouses, and storm television studios, unmasking the hypocrisy of the powerful with coal, candelabras, and a Polaroid camera that burns truth onto film. But theirs is no mere spree of chaos – it is a reckoning. Three “visitations,” each more dreadful than the last, call to account the city’s titans of wealth, law, and spectacle. Between laughter and lament, Jasper and Temperance become both ghosts and gospel – part jester, part judge, all reminder of what Christmas once meant before it was embalmed in velvet and sold at auction. And yet – amid soot and sorrow – something tender flickers. A snow-fallen cabin. A carved toy. A child’s laugh breaking the hush. In the frost and the firelight, the faintest miracle takes shape – redemption, fragile as a candle flame, stubborn as hope. Richly gothic and fiercely humane, Tinsel & Ash: A Carol of Reckoning is a nightmare carol for the disenchanted and the devoted alike – a story that howls at corruption, yet dares to whisper that even in the bleakest winter, Christmas may still be born again.