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The Nightmare Before Christmas

othing, but, as he starts to turn away, he finds himself suddenly sucked into the heart of Christmas Town.

Faced with snowdrifts and colored lights, candy canes and singing, he wonders, ôWhatÆs this?ö He does not understand what he is seeing, but everyone here seems so happy, and he is touched by their delight. He hurries back to his home to share the sense of wonder with his friends, who have been concerned by his unaccustomed disappearance from their midst.

Jack tries to convey the spirit of the place he has stumbled upon. However, the denizens of Halloween Town cannot understand the idea of boxes that hold delightful surprises instead of gruesome secrets or the concept of a holiday built around family togetherness and firesides filled with comfort and joy. Jack ends up painting a frightening picture of a huge monster named ôSandy Clawsö and despairs of being able to either truly understand Christmas or convey that understanding to any of his friends.

As Jack wonders, ôWhat does it mean?ö his friends observe, ôSomethingÆs up with Jack.ö One of the residents of Halloween Town who is observing Jack closely but surreptitiously is the delicately-stitched-together Sally. She poisons her creator, the Evil Scientist, in order to spy shyly on Jack. SallyÆs concern grows as she realizes that Jack has now hatched a plot to take over Christmas and remake it in his own hideous way. She tries to tell him of her premonitions of disaster, but she can only give him vague warnings about her feelings of dread.

Meanwhile, Jack has recruited a mischievous trio of trick or treaters, Lock, Stock, and Barrel, charging them with kidnapping the leader of the rival Christmas Town, the rotund Sandy Claws, so that Jack can impersonate him. The trioÆs first try rounds up a huge pastel Easter Bunny, but they manage to find their target the second time, once Jack describes the right door in the forest.

As Jack enlists the to...

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