Description
Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner - all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is - she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner. And when that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they each tell a ghost story. One that's seasonally appropriate. But Ro will come to learn that the horrors hidden in a Christmas tale - or one's past - can never be tamed once unleashed.
A story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus, written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert
About the Author
Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert (she/her) worked as a kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. She has published three short story collections: Map of Dreams, Holiday, and You Have Never Been Here. Her first novel, The Memory Garden, was published in 2014, and won the Locus award. Her second novel, The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie was published in 2021. She is the winner of the Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award and has been nominated for the Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award. She currently lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250817334
Author Mary Rickert
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 104g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 135mm * 43mm
A story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus, written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert
About the Author
Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert (she/her) worked as a kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. She has published three short story collections: Map of Dreams, Holiday, and You Have Never Been Here. Her first novel, The Memory Garden, was published in 2014, and won the Locus award. Her second novel, The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie was published in 2021. She is the winner of the Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award and has been nominated for the Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award. She currently lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250817334
Author Mary Rickert
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 104g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 135mm * 43mm
