War on Christmas
An Anthology of Tinseled Mayhem
Published on 6. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-77148-499-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ho ho oh hell, is it that time of year again? Already? When the muzak starts cranking out lousy Casio versions of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" non-stop? When the flavor du jour switches from pumpkin spice to eggnog every damned thing? When the world gets all twinkley and glittery and your eyes just want to roll out of your skull from the sparkle overload? When the clatter and jangle of the Salvation Army bell-swingers standing outside every shop entry and exit makes you want to put your ears out with an icepick?
Worse: how about when every other person you come across wants to infect you with the holiday cheer, whether you want it or not? When the constant refrain is: "Remember the Reason for the Season" as if the reason isn't the cash register? When we have to hear the never-ending idiot bleating from certain quarters about the war on Christmas?
Seriously, is it that time of year again already?
Well, if that's got you feeling like Krampus, you've come to the right place. We don't give a tinseled crap about the reason for the season. Deck the halls with this. They want a war on Christmas? Fine. Here it is. And we don't take prisoners.
Worse: how about when every other person you come across wants to infect you with the holiday cheer, whether you want it or not? When the constant refrain is: "Remember the Reason for the Season" as if the reason isn't the cash register? When we have to hear the never-ending idiot bleating from certain quarters about the war on Christmas?
Seriously, is it that time of year again already?
Well, if that's got you feeling like Krampus, you've come to the right place. We don't give a tinseled crap about the reason for the season. Deck the halls with this. They want a war on Christmas? Fine. Here it is. And we don't take prisoners.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-77148-499-2 (9781771484992)
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Persons
Sandra Kasturi is a writer, poet, book reviewer, editor, and the publisher of ChiZine Publications, winner of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Sandra's work has appeared in various venues, including Taddle Creek; Prairie Fire; Contemporary Verse 2; Shadows & Tall Trees; Evolve; Chilling Tales; A Verdant Green; Star*Line; The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts; 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin; Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out; Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers Mutants and Freaks; Gods, Memes & Monsters; Ellen Datlow's Black Feathers; and The Sum of Us. Sandra is the author of two poetry collections: The Animal Bridegroom (with an introduction from Neil Gaiman) and Come Late to the Love of Birds. She is currently working on her third poetry book, Snake Handling for Beginners, a story collection, Mrs. Kong & Other Monsters, and a horror novel, Wrongness.
Craig Wolf's fiction has appeared in Transversions, Triangulation: Dark Glass, Cinema Spec, and Book of Shadows, among others. He has published one collection of odd fiction, Pressure Points, and a short horror novel, Trespass. His newest novel, Queen of All the Nightbirds, will be a ChiZine Publications release in 2019. He is a graduate of the Red Earth MFA, fictioneers in Oklahoma City, and his two favorite words are 'bah' and 'humbug.'
Craig Wolf's fiction has appeared in Transversions, Triangulation: Dark Glass, Cinema Spec, and Book of Shadows, among others. He has published one collection of odd fiction, Pressure Points, and a short horror novel, Trespass. His newest novel, Queen of All the Nightbirds, will be a ChiZine Publications release in 2019. He is a graduate of the Red Earth MFA, fictioneers in Oklahoma City, and his two favorite words are 'bah' and 'humbug.'
Content
CONTRIBUTORS: Paul Michael Anderson, Don Bassingthwaite, Matt Bechtel, Dana Cameron, Alex Colvin, Peter Darbyshire, Robert Dawson, David Demchuk, John C. Foster, Neil Gaiman, Chris Hayes, Kate Heartfield, Kathryn Hore, E.E. King, Alethea Kontis, Ed Kurtz, Helen Lee, Kari Maaren, Bracken MacLeod, Helen Marshall, Matt Moore, David Nickle, James Edward O'Brien, Joanna Parypinski, Thomas Pluck, Cat Rambo, Karl Schroeder, Chris Sumberg, Thomas Vaughn, Noah Wareness, and Gord Zajac