Download or read book Santa s Curse written by Moorman T. A. and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Santa s Curse written by T. A. Moorman and published by Draft2digital. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Santa was a vampire? Jacquelyn, an enchantress with an overprotective streak, thinks it's up to her to protect her older sister, Jadine, an enchantress who's also a paranoid hypochondriac. So, whenever a male comes along trying to use Jadine, Jackie gets rid of them, in a non-conventional way. When the last person Jacquelyn expects, a certain vampire she's had a not so little crush on, seems to be creeping around on her sister, she has no choice but to get rid of him, too. In front of witnesses. Only to find out one second too late that she had it all wrong. Victor, like many males, has issues expressing how he truly feels. When he finally decides it's time to stop running from fate and claim his mate, he goes to her sister for advice. But, creeping in and out of Jadine's place like a thief in the night leads the very person he wants to win over to draw all the wrong conclusions. Which leads to him trading in his pale good looks for a white beard and a red velvet suit. Now that the town knows Jacquelyn is the one behind all of the disappearances, and thinking she's killed all of those that are missing, they're out for her blood. And the only one who can save her is, well, Santa. But will he be able to make it back to her before it's too late? Enjoy a brand-new tale of how Santa Clause came to be. (Originally part of the Holiday Magic Anthology.)
Download or read book Catching Santa written by David M. F. Powers and published by Pants On Fire Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2011 Indie Award-Winner is the first in a new series. This Christmas, read a story unlike any other about a boy whose destiny will force you to forget everything you know about Santa because it¿s just not true! In Franco¿s book it is six days before Christmas in Winter Garden and weird things are happening in 11-year-old Jakob's Florida neighborhood. His friends are convinced their Christmas is in danger, and then live snowmen strangely appear and confirm the threat. Jakob dismisses the bizarre events as an elaborate hoax concocted by the neighborhood bully. But when the bully turns into smoke, a devilish stranger appears as the mastermind behind the mayhem demanding that Jakob catch Santa...or else!
Download or read book T P s Weekly written by Thomas Power O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tis The Season written by William D Holloway and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christmas will be one that no one will forget. As an unknown curse is accidentally put on the holiday, a group of misfits must undo their wrong before everyone's jolly cheers turn to jolly fears. Or is this just another unusual day for the unusual citizens of Holiday City? This Christmas story is not one for the little kids.
Download or read book The Legend of Holly Claus written by Brittney Ryan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Claus’s daughter sets out to break a curse and free a magical kingdom—in this beloved New York Times bestseller. Though few mortals know his secret, Nicholas is more than a jolly red-suited man who visits children all over the world on Christmas Eve—he is also the king of Forever, Land of the Immortals. Each year he gets letters from millions of boys and girls, and helps make their Christmas wishes come true. But one year, a special little boy from New York City asks something Nicholas has never been asked before: “What do you wish for Christmas, Santa?” With that simple question, a magical story unfolds. Nicholas answers that his only wish is for a child. And soon the immortal people of the kingdom celebrate the arrival of Holly Claus, the princess of Forever and the first child to grace its ground. But their happiness is dashed when an evil sorcerer places a spell on the infant, turning her heart to ice and freezing her kingdom in time. Many years later, just in time for Christmas Eve, Holly travels to New York, intent upon saving Christmas and freeing the land of Forever. Holly will make this the most magical—and memorable—Christmas the world has ever seen. This ebook features a note from Brittney Ryan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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 The Three Lost Kids the Christmas Curse written by Kimberly Kinrade and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolved Publishing brings you "The Three Lost Kids & The Christmas Curse," by award-winning author Kimberly Kinrade. (Chapter Book for kids 6-9 years old.) ...We pulled, and the rope tightened, wrapping around Santa's feet and yanking him upside down to hang from our tree. "What on earth?" He shook and swung and tried to pull himself up, but his belly kept getting in the way. If we hadn't been so desperate, I would have laughed. When he saw us, he reached out. "Kids, help me! I'm stuck." I kept my distance. "I'm sorry, Santa, but we have to stop Christmas, and this is the only way...". Christmas every day sounds like the best thing ever to Bella and her sisters, but when a special Wishing Stone grants her heart's desire, The Three Lost Kids discover the curse hidden in the wish. Now they have to stop Christmas no matter what-even if that means ending up on Santa's Naughty List. Will the girls learn the true meaning of Christmas and find a way to break the curse? Or will they be stuck in their self-created Jingle Bells Nightmare forever?
Download or read book The Christmas Santa Almost Missed written by Marian Frances and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Santa's cap turns up missing he is afraid he will not be able to go out to deliver presents.
Download or read book The Usual Santas A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers written by and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs, murders, and plenty more. This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season. Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccolò Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes’s one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage assignment. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess of Wilborough’s stolen diamonds. These and other adventures in this delectable volume will whisk readers away to Christmases around the globe, from a Korean War POW camp to a Copenhagen refugee squat, from a palatial hotel in 1920s Bombay to a crumbling mansion in Havana. Includes Stories By (In Order of Appearance): Helene Tursten, Mick Herron, Martin Limón, Timothy Hallinan, Teresa Dovalpage, Mette Ivie Harrison, Colin Cotterill, Ed Lin, Stuart Neville, Tod Goldberg, Henry Chang, James R. Benn, Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis, Sujata Massey, Gary Corby, Cara Black, Stephanie Barron and a Foreword and story by Peter Lovesey.
Download or read book Santa Claus Comes Tonight Too written by Jack Beaumont and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump in bed, cover up your head 'cause Santa Claus comes tonight! Betheltown, Alaska: Where the phrase "Santa Claus comes tonight" is spoken in a whisper and is viewed as a threat, instead of a reason for holiday cheer. Jackson Deavers is a man on a dangerous mission. As a small child he witnessed Santa Claus murder and steal his older brother. Then as an older child, he endured the agonizing wails of his neighbor's wife as she discovered Santa had taken their only son. He made a vow to himself that Christmas morning to one day stop the cruel monster who the rest of the world adored. Now grown, with children of his own, he's ready to take on, and kill the demon known as Santa Claus, or die trying. He will end the curse on Betheltown once and for all. Unfortunately for Jackson...you can't possibly kill something that's eternal... "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake..."
Download or read book Santa Claus Is He For Your Child written by John L. Hoh, Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Saint Nicholas? Who is Santa Claus? How are the two related? This book looks at the history of the legends of St. Nicholas and how he evolved in America to Santa Claus. Primarily, this book seeks to point out the anti-Christian message of St. Nick/Santa Claus. Christmas is a celebration of the Lord of the universe coming to earth to take our place in death to pay for our sins. Scripture records that our salvation is “by faith, not by works, lest anyone should boast.” Meanwhile, Santa waddles onto the Yuletide scene by warning children that they better be good, or they will not get any presents. Throughout the ages St. Nick has been used as a political pawn, as a spokesperson for a particular product or service and as a model of what the Church and any well-meaning Christian must do for others. However, St. Nicholas of legend is recorded as uttering legalistic advice to those he meets. He never comforts or assures with the rich Gospel message, nor does he give glory to God for any “miracles” he performs. This book sets out to teach parents about the truth of this jolly elf. In educating parents, the message may help them determine to what extent they play the “Santa game” with their children. Like Virginia O’Hanlon, we live in a cynical age. Santa has lost much of his luster. In the movies we have a serial-killer Santa and Santa ́s that curse and swear. We see Santas that are impatient with the young charges who come to sit on their lap and request their presents. Tim Burton’s T’was the Nightmare Before Christmas portrays a Santa who scares and frightens young children. On college campuses and in many workplaces, A Visit From Saint Nicholas is reworked and reworded to portray an alcoholic oaf who barges in on Christmas Eve. In song, Santa ́s uncontrollable reindeer run down grandma. Teenagers rework Rudolph the red-nose reindeer as—surprise-an alcoholic. Regional groups often have humorous songs at Santa’s expense that often put the jolly elf in a bad light. The legends and myths of Santa are seen as fraudulent. The expectations of the elf for us “mortals” are seen as unapproachable. The promises and threats are seen as empty and hollow. The cynicism of this caricature is certainly in place. Read the review at BookIdeas.com.
Download or read book SCP Foundation Santa Clause written by Michael Schuerman and published by Michael Schuerman. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure begins when Krampus, Santa's notorious counterpart known for his malevolent antics, escapes with a host of Christmas-themed entities. To counter this unprecedented crisis, the SCP Foundation enlists Santa and his team of adept elves for an urgent mission: to track down and contain these rogue entities before they wreak global havoc. Each chapter of the novel unravels a new challenge and introduces a unique entity, heightening the suspense and intrigue. From the Yuletide Yeti, SCP-1950-Y, who brings an unseasonal blizzard to a sun-kissed paradise, to the sinister Cursed Carol Book, SCP-2000-S, which transforms beloved Christmas carols into ominous curses, Santa and his team are pushed to their limits. The stakes escalate when the Chaos Playbox, SCP-2025-E, unleashes turmoil within the heart of Santa's workshop, turning it into a battleground and testing the elves' mettle and resourcefulness. "SCP Foundation Santa Clause" seamlessly blends the festive charm of Christmas with the intrigue of the SCP Foundation's secretive world. The novel explores themes of bravery, ingenuity, and the enduring power of the Christmas spirit amidst otherworldly dangers.
Download or read book THE MARRIAGE CURSE written by Carolyn Andrews and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ghost was one thing; a curse was another… Mattie Farrell's restaurant had a ghost…one who played the harpsichord and opened the front door to a few select people. Her gorgeous landlord, Grant Whittaker, was one of them. And he was very much alive…. The ghost was his great-aunt, he said, and her curse had driven everyone of marrying age out of Barclayville. Everyone but him…and her. Mattie refused to believe it. Why would their ghost put a hex on marriage and then matchmake so determinedly from the grave?
Download or read book The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Three Titan s Curse written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
Download or read book Curses written by Dotti Enderle and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the local museum hosts the exhibit for the mummy of Egyptian king, Tuturtikum, Malcolm and Dandy become victims of the king's curse, and the onyl way to lift it is to get rid of Tuturtikum's ghost.
Download or read book The Modern Christmas in America written by William Waits and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In days of old, Christmas was defined by the custom of exchanging simple handmade gifts. Today, it has become a multi-billion industry, synonymous with commercialism and consumption. How did this transformation occur? In this incisive and engaging examination of how Christmas has evolved since 1880, Waits chronicles the history of the holiday, from its origin to its current form. The book is illustrated with dozens of historical photographs and will be of interest to cultural and social historians alike. Christmas was a relatively modest occasion in the English- speaking world, celebrated by the exchange of modest handmade gifts, until the Victorians invested the holiday with immense significance as part of a larger effort to celebrate home, family, and a mythic past of well-ordered communities. By the late 19th century, Christmas had become a major American festival. Today, it is a multi-billion dollar industry and easily the most important seasonal event of the year. In this survey of the modern American Christmas, William Waits shows us how this holiday emerged, tracing its evolution from the days prior to 1880 when people presented one another with simple crafted presents to the turn of the century when industrialization brought with it waves of inexpensive, tawdry gimcracks. In the early twentieth century, reform-minded Americans reflecting on the new Christmas prompted a backlash against this cheapening of the Yule tradition, and the Christmas card was born. Henceforth, family members and close friends exchanged useful, costly items, while cards were sent to acquaintances and distant relatives. These reformers also persuaded retail stores to keep their regular hours of business during the holiday, rather than lengthening them, to give trade workers the opportunity to join in the celebration. They also rationalized the collection and distribution of holiday charity, resulting in the Christmas celebration we have today. Waits's book clearly illustrates that the notion that Christmas is uncontrollable is simply untrue. An incisive and engaging history of giftgiving, The Modern Christmas in Americaalso examines the differing traditions of giftgiving to friends, employees, the poor, and among entire communities. Handsomely illustrated with dozens of historical photographs, this book is not only the perfect holiday gift but will also be of interest to any student of American history and culture.
