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How to Kill Santa

20 Sunday Dec 2015

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Finn remembers. The dark woods. The chair of bone and horn. He sat on Santa’s cold lap. The blue-black skin. Moon-glow eyes. The clotted beard. That distended belly that shook like things writhing in jelly.

May your holidays be weird. Want to make them weirder? Check out my story, “How to Kill Santa”, in Weird Winter Stories, an anthology featuring the characters of Sparrow and Crowe (from the audio drama Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery).

Norse draugr mythology meets Santa lore, preternatural parasites, and more! I’ve even made you a playlist to listen to while you read.

The night before Christmas is a long stretch of dark.

You can hide anything there.

Santa Draugr

Weird Winter: a soundtrack

24 Monday Dec 2012

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Need a soundtrack to set the mood for reading strange holiday fiction? Here’s the playlist I listened to while writing “How to Kill Santa” for the anthology, Weird Winter Stories: A Sparrow & Crowe Yuletide Anthology.

Click the GIVE AS A GIFT button and fill someone’s digital stockings with weird winter fiction.

May Your Holidays Be Strange

22 Saturday Dec 2012

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I’m a Halloween boy, born and bred in the pumpkin patch, but I’ve always loved the Winter holidays. The mix is not so incongruous…or rather the incongruity works. Winter/Yule/Christmas and all the rest have had an affair with Weird Tales for a long time–from Charles Dickens to The Nightmare Before Christmas. It was not so long ago that winter was a deadly time of year. The harvest is behind; the spring is impossibly far ahead; the nights are long and dark–time to gather round the fire and tell strange stories.

So gather, lumplings!

WeirdWinterI had the good fortune of working with the creators of Sparrow & Crowe on an anthology of the winter weird, featuring their eponymous occult investigators. If you like to see more of the odd duo, check out their comic book (try out the free software on Comixology–I’d never thought I’d enjoy reading a comic on a phone, but it’s pretty sweet). Also see Sparrow and Crowe in their original appearance as part of the podcasted audio drama Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery (free to download from the website or iTunes).

Best of all, all proceeds from our anthology of winter weird goes to a charity: 826LA.

Check out my story, “How to Kill Santa.” It mixes Christmas, Santa, Norse undead known as the draugr, and hagfish! It’s Steven King’s It meets A Christmas Carol and a dash of Goonies.

Santa Draugr

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