The Knocker on the Door

Scrooge saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change, not a knocker, but marley's face. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at scrooge as marley used to look with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead. And though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless. The sound resounded through the house like thunder. Every room above and every cask in the wine merchant's cellars below appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own. But there was nothing on the back of the door except the screws and nuts that held the knocker on. So he said,