You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" is widely considered to be ... but it didn't work out at the time. In the original poem, there were only three characters. Despite the colorful cast of characters ...

A Tim Burton poem predated The Nightmore Before Christmas. Burton originally imagined The Nightmare Before Christmas ... In Burton’s original sketches, Jack was dressed all in black.

From an original fairy tale poem and the fertile and febrile imagination of Tim Burton (the film was also known as "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" in the hope of lending it some ...

Based on an original poem by Tim Burton, which the filmmaker wrote while working at Disney’s animation studios, The Nightmare Before Christmas is directed by Henry Selick, who brings Burton’s ...

nothing beats reading the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem with a crackling fireplace, twinkling tree and jolly carols ...