Download or read book Santa Claus Is Dead written by Jason Twede and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Elf stumbles across Santa's body in the middle of the forest. A single set of footprints lead to the body and disappear. There is nothing else around for miles.And so begins the most important investigation of detective Johnny Iceberg's career.Discover a world in which Elves may be disgruntled factory workers or photographers on snowshoed stilts - a world in which Mrs. Claus is less than half Santa's age and wears a curvy, low-cut size 6 - a world in which penguins can be police officers and polar bears are beat reporters - a world in which humans are the minority and the native Snowmen have to hibernate each summer to keep from melting.Experience the desperate struggle for light and warmth beneath winter's perpetual night - the showdown of competing Christmas ideologies and dreams - the heartache of Christmas pasts and the promise of Christmas futures.Above all, experience the quest of a jaded, bitter detective trying to save the life and resurrect the innocence of an anguished 11-year old girl who finds herself framed for the murder of Santa Claus.
Download or read book Santa Claus Is Dead written by Herbert Heyes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Nicholas, bringer of gifts to the needy, was the inspiration for Santa Claus, derived from the Dutch Sinter Klaas. St. Nick reportedly died around 343 A.D. and archeologists recently discovered his tomb beneath a church in Demre, the ancient Greek city once known as Myra. This is just one fact in a book of amazing history, corrected myths, and particular particulars about a holiday (or holy day) observed by more than one-third of world's population. Everything you ever wanted to know about Christmas.
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Illustrated written by L Frank Baum and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark
Download or read book A Visit from St Nicholas written by Clement Clarke Moore and published by Boston : Atlantic monthly Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.
Download or read book I Saw Mommy Biting Santa Claus written by Matt Mogk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Saw Mommy Biting Santa Claus is a new spin on a holiday classic that tells the story of a suburban zombie outbreak and the little boy who knows just what to do. When Johnny finds out that his mother has turned into a zombie and has attacked Santa Claus, he knows that it’s up to him to put the living dead (back) to rest. While the chaos spreads from the mall to the Christmas parade, Johnny finds his friends Glenn, Barb, and Ben, and they devise a plan to not only protect themselves—and their dog—but to make sure to get to Grandma’s house before the zombies take over town. While they’ve planned for the worst, nothing could prepare them for watching jolly old Saint Nick get devoured by mindless zombies. This clever take on a Christmas tradition is right up the alley of anyone who ever wondered what would happen if a zombie outbreak took place during the holiday season. I Saw Mommy Biting Santa Claus is a beautifully gory tale that’s sure to become a classic for fans of the holidays and the living dead.
Download or read book The Real Santa written by Nancy Redd and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join one Black family on their journey to discover what Santa looks like in this joyous tale celebrating identity, family and holiday cheer! It’s not Christmas without Santa! But what does Santa truly look like? Does he match the figurines on the mantel, or the faces on our favorite holiday sweaters? Does he look like you or like me? Find out in this joyous and cozy celebration of family, representation, and holiday spirit! Destined to be a new classic, and perfect for any child looking to see some of themself in Santa Claus.
Download or read book Holiday in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Eve Dallas tails a serial killer who has a passion for the "Twelve Days of Christmas" in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer who likes to dress up as Santa Claus, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. As the murders continue, Eve enters into an elite world of people searching for their one true love. A world where the power of love leads men and women into the ultimate act of betrayal...
Download or read book Letters to Santa Claus written by The Elves and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “poignant” collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus—a town in Indiana—from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times). For countless Christmases, children—and sometimes adults—have stuffed their dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes. Over many decades, millions of these letters have poured into Santa Claus, Indiana. Arriving from all corners of the globe, the letters ask for toys, family reunions, snow, and help for the needy—sometimes the needy being the writers themselves. They are candid, heartfelt, and often blunt. Many children wonder how Santa gets into their chimneyless homes. One child reminds Santa that she has not hit her brothers over 1,350 times that year, and another respectfully requests two million dollars in “cold cash.” One child hopes to make his life better with a time machine, an adult woman asks for a man, and one miscreant actually threatens Santa’s reindeer! Containing more than 250 actual letters and envelopes from the naughty and nice reaching back to the 1930s, this moving book will touch hearts and bring back memories of a time in our lives when the man with a white beard and a red suit held out the hope that our wishes might come true. “Often very affecting . . . also offers an unusual window into American history.” —Library Journal “The letters . . . are alternately silly and somber, hilarious and heartfelt.” —The Weekly Standard
Download or read book Winter Heart written by John Bensley and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth is, life isn't all that wonderful much of the time. And for most of us, it's especially dramatic toward the end of our race this side of heaven, drawing out the random memory of joy or the unprepared awareness of facing one's Maker. Even Saint Nicholas can't escape the pain it has to offer. What would happen if he were to be hurt, or sick? Or what would happen if he were to be lonely, or even depressed? The story inside will give you a chalk-marked holiday rendition of how trauma affects us all -- so prepare to have your soul touched by this unique story of our Christmas hero in red.
Download or read book Santa Claus written by Edward Estlin Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play is an allegorical Christmas tale consisting of one act of five scenes. In the play, Santa Claus deals with the increasing materialism and lust for knowledge around him and becomes consumed by it because of Death. However, the love Santa has for his family allows him to reject these things. Feeling outdated, Santa Claus allows Death to trade masks with him, Santa representing understanding, Death representing knowledge, or Science. Santa Claus, now a Scientist, makes people believe in the fictional wheelmine and the power of Science. Later, Death, masked as Santa, runs into the real Santa, who is yelling about an accident that occurred at the wheelmine. Death explains that wheelmines, nor people, really exist and then goes on to say that the only way Santa can avoid the angry citizens is to prove that he does not exist. The people enter, disillusioned by Science, and blame Santa for the accident. A child in the crowd claims that what the mob calls Science is actually Santa Claus, and because the mob does not believe in Saint Nick, he does not exist. To thank Death for his advice, Santa gives up his body. The child returns and notices the change in Santa and they both admit that they are searching for someone they lost. In the final scene, the woman enters, weeping about how the world has lost all the love due to knowledge. She sees Santa as Death and thinks he is the real Death and she admits that she looks forward to dying. The mob enters to announce the death of Science and the child, Santa, and the woman reunite. Santa takes off the Death mask and they realize the power of love between them.
Download or read book Christmas of the Dead written by Anthony Giangregorio and published by Undead Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Christmas time and the dead are walking! Zombie Santas, undead elves and reanimated reindeer are just some of the holiday characters found in this merry little book. Have you been naughty or nice this year? Well, that's up to Santa Claus to decide. But if you've been naughty, just pray he leaves you a stocking full of coal, and doesn't gut and eat your insides instead! For you see, this holiday season is a Christmas of the Dead! The holiday season will never be the same again.
Download or read book Who Killed Santa written by Neil Haven and published by Original Works Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: In this hilarious and irreverent send-up, Santa is hosting his annual holiday party attended by the usual holiday favorties: Frosty, Tiny Tim, The Little Drummer Boy, and Rudolph, who all have a bone to pick with Santa. After the introduction of the sexy new Little Drummer Girl, tempers flare, and Santa ends up with a candy cane through the heart. No one will confess, no one can leave, and Christmas is in jeopardy. As the tension builds, a couple of incompetent detectives enter the scene, and all the dirty secrets of these iconic holiday characters are revealed. Eventually, with the help of the audience, the murderer is convicted and sentenced. * The show features parodies of holiday songs and four different endings. Cast Size: 3 Males, 2 Females, 1 Either
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire written by Simon Bacon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theatre of E E Cummings written by E. E. Cummings and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete collection of E. E. Cummings’s writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century. The Theatre of E. E. Cummings collects in their entirety Cummings’s long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays HIM (1927), Anthropos (1930), and Santa Claus (1946), and the ballet treatment Tom (1935). In HIM, a creatively blocked artist and his lover, Me, struggle to bridge the impasse in their relationship and in his art. In Anthropos, a Platonic parable, three “infrahumans” brainstorm slogans while a man sketches on a cave wall; and in Santa Claus, Death and Saint Nick exchange identities. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is reimagined as dance, transforming the novel into a symbolic attack against Evil itself. Cummings’s prodigious creativity is on display in each of these works, which are ultimately about the place of the artist outside of society. “DON’T TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT, LET IT TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOU,” Cummings famously wrote about his intentions for the stage. Thoughtful and witty, Cummings’s dramas are an integral part of his canon.
Download or read book Santa Claus Last of the Wild Men written by Phyllis Siefker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the modern-day vision of Santa Claus is owed to the Clement Moore poem "The Night Before Christmas." His description of Saint Nicholas personified the "jolly old elf" known to millions of children throughout the world. However, far from being the offshoot of Saint Nicholas of Turkey, Santa Claus is the last of a long line of what scholars call "Wild Men" who were worshipped in ancient European fertility rites and came to America through Pennsylvania's Germans. This pagan creature is described from prehistoric times through his various forms--Robin Hood, The Fool, Harlequin, Satan and Robin Goodfellow--into today's carnival and Christmas scenes. In this thoroughly researched work, the origins of Santa Claus are found to stretch back over 50,000 years, jolting the foundation of Christian myths about the jolly old elf.
Download or read book Wanted written by xmas 4you and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny Christmas notebook for people who love the holidays and who love to be totally organised. Lined pages throughout. Get yours today! Specifications: Cover Finish: Matte Dimensions: 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) Interior: Lined Blank, White Paper, Pages: 110
Download or read book Bad Santas written by Paul Hawkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Santas is not a book for children. Here you will find the bloody, the bawdy and the downright bizarre in a celebration of the most imaginative, macabre and curious Christmas figures and customs from across Europe. Drawing on that continent's legacy of disquieting folk tales told at wintertime, Paul Hawkins' gleefully dark exploration of seasonal folklore is the perfect book for reading around the fireside.
