A Demon's Christmas

A Demon's Christmas PDF Author: K B Everly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781670185365
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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After centuries of feeling alone, Krampus' favorite demon, Holly, has decided to change the rules.On Christmas Eve, when the demons are let loose to capture human prey, Holly finds three men who fit the sacrificial bill. Little does she know the violent Vien, the guilty Nash, and the sad Grey are everything she needs to escape the loneliness of her long existence.With midnight coming fast and the arrival of Krampus imminent, Holly must decide if she should do her job and throw the men to the depths of Krampus' hell, or ask her master for one gift.To make a demon's Christmas wish come true.*Previously published as Unholy Temptations in Deadly Night: A Twisted Christmas Anthology

A Demon's Christmas

A Demon's Christmas PDF Author: K B Everly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781670185365
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Book Description
After centuries of feeling alone, Krampus' favorite demon, Holly, has decided to change the rules.On Christmas Eve, when the demons are let loose to capture human prey, Holly finds three men who fit the sacrificial bill. Little does she know the violent Vien, the guilty Nash, and the sad Grey are everything she needs to escape the loneliness of her long existence.With midnight coming fast and the arrival of Krampus imminent, Holly must decide if she should do her job and throw the men to the depths of Krampus' hell, or ask her master for one gift.To make a demon's Christmas wish come true.*Previously published as Unholy Temptations in Deadly Night: A Twisted Christmas Anthology

Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon

Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon PDF Author: James Lovegrove
Publisher: Titan Books
ISBN: 1785658034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick's calling card... Eve stands to inherit a fortune if she is sound in mind, but it seems that something - or someone - is threatening her sanity. Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpe family seat at Fellscar Keep to investigate, but soon discover that there is more to the case than at first appeared. There is another spirit haunting the family, and when a member of the household is found dead, the companions realise that no one is beyond suspicion.

Christmas with a Demon

Christmas with a Demon PDF Author: Renee Matthews
Publisher: eXtasy Books
ISBN: 1487415400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Jiraiya had no desire to be a part of the Christmas season. He planned to do his job and protect his people from the monsters that lived across the border. The last thing that he expected was to have a monster fly into his arms or the feelings that would come with it. Now, Jiraiya must decide if the monster that declares a soul binding connection to him is a Christmas miracle or a disaster. Does love stand a chance for two enemies even around this magical time of the year?

The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas

The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas PDF Author: Al Ridenour
Publisher: Feral House
ISBN: 162731041X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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The Krampus, a folkloric devil associated with St. Nicholas in Alpine Austria and Germany, has been embraced by the American counterculture and is lately skewing mainstream. The new Christmas he seems to embody is ironically closer to an ancient understanding of the holiday as a perilous, haunted season. In the Krampus' world, witches rule Christmas, and saints can sometimes kill.

Pagan Christmas

Pagan Christmas PDF Author: Christian Rätsch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594776601
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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An examination of the sacred botany and the pagan origins and rituals of Christmas • Analyzes the symbolism of the many plants associated with Christmas • Reveals the shamanic rituals that are at the heart of the Christmas celebration The day on which many commemorate the birth of Christ has its origins in pagan rituals that center on tree worship, agriculture, magic, and social exchange. But Christmas is no ordinary folk observance. It is an evolving feast that over the centuries has absorbed elements from cultures all over the world--practices that give plants and plant spirits pride of place. In fact, the symbolic use of plants at Christmas effectively transforms the modern-day living room into a place of shamanic ritual. Christian Rätsch and Claudia Müller-Ebeling show how the ancient meaning of the botanical elements of Christmas provides a unique view of the religion that existed in Europe before the introduction of Christianity. The fir tree was originally revered as the sacred World Tree in northern Europe. When the church was unable to drive the tree cult out of people’s consciousness, it incorporated the fir tree by dedicating it to the Christ child. Father Christmas in his red-and-white suit, who flies through the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, has his mythological roots in the shamanic reindeer-herding tribes of arctic Europe and Siberia. These northern shamans used the hallucinogenic fly agaric mushroom, which is red and white, to make their soul flights to the other world. Apples, which figure heavily in Christmas baking, are symbols of the sun god Apollo, so they find a natural place at winter solstice celebrations of the return of the sun. In fact, the authors contend that the emphasis of Christmas on green plants and the promise of the return of life in the dead of winter is just an adaptation of the pagan winter solstice celebration.

Hell for the Holidays

Hell for the Holidays PDF Author: D. M. Guay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781676321781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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The tree is trimmed. The mistletoe is hung. The eggnog is spiked. It's time to celebrate the merriest, most heart-warming Christmas ever! Or not? No. Definitely, absolutely not. This Christmas won't be cheerful. It'll be more like Ash vs Evil Dead meets National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Because the Wallace family's annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails. When a truckload of newly minted ghosts mix with the blizzard of the century, the neighborhood snowmen turn into blood-thirsty fiends. Their ghastly quest for revenge draws them to the brightest, loudest, most Christmasy place in the neighborhood: The home of Lloyd Wallace, hapless employee of the 24/7 Demon Mart, a local corner store where the beer cave doubles as the gate to hell.When the possessed snowmen crash a party packed with unpleasant relatives, back-stabbing socialites, one inconsolable cockroach, three badass demon fighters, and too much alcohol, this picture-perfect holiday soon goes straight to hell.This Christmas story is a companion to 24/7 Demon Mart, a humorous dark fantasy and horror-comedy book series for fans of Christopher Moore (The Stupidest Angel), Terry Pratchett, Mark Cain (Circles in Hell), and Heide Goody (Candy Canes and Buckets of Blood / Last Christmas, an Oddjobs short story).Hell for the Holidays can be read at any point in the 24/7 Demon Mart series AFTER The Graveyard Shift: 24/7 Demon Mart #1.

Krampus

Krampus PDF Author: Brom
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062095676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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“Terrific. A wild ride….I loved it. It hooked me and I couldn’t put it down.” —Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy "Brom is that rare breed: a person who is skilled in more than one area of artistic expression. Here's hoping that he will continue to share his dark and often beautiful dreams with us for many years to come." --Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon Acclaimed author and artist Brom raised eyebrows and pulse rates with The Child Thief, his grim, brilliantly audacious, gorgeously illustrated reimagining of the Peter Pan legend. So what does this innovative fantasist do for an encore? He tinkers darkly with the beloved mythology of Santa Claus. Set in Appalachia, Krampus the Yule Lord is a twisted fairytale about a failed West Virginia songwriter who gets ensnared on Christmas Eve in an eternal war between a not-so-saintly Saint Nick and his dark enemy Krampus, aka Black Peter, an ancient trickster demon. Krampus the Yule Lord is Gregory Maguire (Wicked) meets Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell) in the realm of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, as Clive Barker (Mr. B. Gone) works his dark sorcery from the shadows. Once again featuring Brom’s chillingly beautiful artwork throughout, Krampus the Yule Lord is a feast of wonder straight from the kitchen of Sweeney Todd.

Confessions of a Demon

Confessions of a Demon PDF Author: S. L. Wright
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451462329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Bar owner Allay, the only human-demon hybrid in existence, forms a powerful bond with Theo Ram, a mortal, when he saves her from a demon attack, but their relationship is tested when the demons of New York rise against the humans.

The Christmas Sisters

The Christmas Sisters PDF Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 1488096481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Don't miss North to Home, the Hallmark movie based on The Chistmas Sisters! “The perfect gift for readers who relish heartwarming tales of sisters and love.”—Booklist on The Christmas Sisters In the snowy Highlands of Scotland, Suzanne McBride is dreaming of the perfect cozy Christmas. Her three adopted daughters are coming home for the holidays and she can’t wait to see them. But tensions are running high… Workaholic Hannah knows she can’t avoid spending the holidays with her family two years in a row. But it’s not the weight of their expectations that’s panicking her—it’s the life-changing secret she’s hiding. Stay-at-home mom Beth is having a personal crisis. All she wants for Christmas is time to decide if she’s ready to return to work—seeing everyone was supposed to help her stress levels, not increase them! Posy isn’t sure she’s living her best life, but with her parents depending on her, making a change seems risky. But not as risky as falling for gorgeous new neighbor Luke… As Suzanne’s dreams of the perfect McBride Christmas unravel, she must rely on the magic of the season to bring her daughters together. But will this new togetherness teach the sisters that their close-knit bond is strong enough to withstand anything—including a family Christmas? A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape in The Island Villa, the next heartwarming novel by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan!

A Christmas Proposition

A Christmas Proposition PDF Author: Jessica Lemmon
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488092427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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In this contemporary romance, a socialite enlists her brother’s BFF to pose as her husband for the holidays, but their pretend love soon gets all too real. Headstrong socialite Stefanie Ferguson is in hot water. She needs a fake husband to deflect a rumor that could wreck her family’s political ambitions. Desperate, she turns to the only available bachelor she knows, security specialist Emmett Keaton—who has to say yes to her proposal because he’s her brother’s best friend! They tie the temporary knot on Christmas Day . . . The plan is to stay married only until the rumors have passed, but in the meantime . . . why not live a little? There’s an attraction between them neither can deny. There’s only one problem: Emmett’s oath to her brother that if she shows signs of being in love, Emmett will end things, and fast. As Stefanie falls harder for her show husband, the L word looms on her lips. Has the moment of reckoning arrived for this convenient Christmas marriage?