Christmas Tales [NOOK Book]

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Overview

CHRISTMAS TALES offers three “ghosts of Christmas” in its three stories celebrating the magic of the season, as well as the lyrics of four original holiday songs. It’s a book that can be enjoyed by all ages.

While primarily known as a horror author, John Everson wrote the first offering, “Christmas, The Hard Way,” as a holiday gift to family and friends. The story is a fantastical look at the Christmas holiday from the point of view of Will, a boy who comes from a family of... well... witches. To them, magic comes naturally. But at Christmastime, they pledge to give up magic to rediscover the importance of doing and making things with the sweat of ...
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Overview

CHRISTMAS TALES offers three “ghosts of Christmas” in its three stories celebrating the magic of the season, as well as the lyrics of four original holiday songs. It’s a book that can be enjoyed by all ages.

While primarily known as a horror author, John Everson wrote the first offering, “Christmas, The Hard Way,” as a holiday gift to family and friends. The story is a fantastical look at the Christmas holiday from the point of view of Will, a boy who comes from a family of... well... witches. To them, magic comes naturally. But at Christmastime, they pledge to give up magic to rediscover the importance of doing and making things with the sweat of honest labor. That will be a difficult – but important – lesson for Will to learn.

The second tale of the collection, “Frost," opens with David, a young boy from a broken home on an uneasy trip home for the holidays after visiting with his dad. But his trip takes an unexpected turn when a frost sprite in the plane window escorts him on a journey that can only be seen as the start of "growing up"... and the beginning of a rekindled Christmas.

The narrative of the third story of the collection, “Will You Spend This Christmas Night With Me?” looks into the heart of a “lost man” who is living alone with no friends or family. Based on one of John Everson's original Christmas songs, it tells the life-altering story of a lonely man who takes in a homeless child – or is she? – on Christmas Eve.

Heartwarming contemporary fantasies all, CHRISTMAS TALES – which also includes a handful of original holiday song lyrics – will bring the spirit of Christmas to your heart.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940012003416
  • Publisher: John Everson
  • Publication date: 12/20/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 367,425
  • File size: 370 KB

Meet the Author

John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the horror novels COVENANT, SACRIFICE, THE 13TH and SIREN, and the short story collections DEADLY NIGHTLUSTS, CREEPTYCH, NEEDLES & SINS and CAGE OF BONES & OTHER DEADLY OBSESSIONS. And every now and then, in between the creepy stuff, he writes feel-good fantasy stories and songs about Christmas.

John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There’s also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can’t really play but that his son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife Geri is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it’s usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job at a medical association, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs photo collage art book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of ’70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle.

For information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com.

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  • Posted December 30, 2010

    Loved these Stories!!!

    Need a uplifting story? Definately check out these stories by John Everson.
    I treated myself to "Chrismas Tales'. I found each story well written and perfect for the Christmas season. Please take a look at this author and his heartfelt & insightful stories. These are stories you can add to your Christmas tradition and share with friends and family.
    Go on, treat yourself, buy this book:-)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2010

    I give it ONE Ghost.

    I did not care for this book. More for the teenager, I guess.
    I will however look into some of his 'horror' stories.
    Marley

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  • Posted December 24, 2010

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    Start a New Christmas Tradition

    The best stories are those that stay with the reader long after the last page is read. The three tales in John Everson's CHRISTMAS TALES manage to convey the true meaning of the holidays while still remaining unique and imaginative. Poignant, moving, and just about near perfect, these are stories of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people searching for the spirit of Christmas and finding it in the unlikeliest of places.

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