The Christmas Collection
Cora Buhlert
Publisher: Pegasus Pulp Publishing
Summary
Thirteen tales of Christmas by Hugo finalist Cora Buhlert. Romance, cozy fantasy, murder mysteries, pulp thrillers, science fiction, horror and humor – we have all that and more. Watch young people find love in the pre-holiday shopping rush at Hickory Ridge Mall, at a Christmas tree lot, on the parking lot of a shuttered outlet mall and at the one bar in town that's open on Christmas Eve. Experience Christmas in Hallowind Cove, the permanently fog-shrouded seaside town, where strange things keep happening. Watch as Santa's various helpers unite to depose him. Follow Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd and her team as they investigate the death of a robber dressed as Santa Claus as well as a wave of thefts at a Christmas market. Meet Richard Blakemore, hardworking pulp author by day and the masked crimefighter known only as the Silencer by night, as he fights to save an orphanage from demolition in Depression era New York City. Watch Alfred and Bertha, an ordinary married couple, as they decorate the Christmas tree and live their marvellous twenty-first century life. Experience Christmas on the space colony of Iago Prime as well as after the end of the world. Enjoy thirteen novellas, novelettes and short stories in six genres. This is a collection of 118000 words or approx. 390 print pages. Contains the following stories:Christmas GiftsChristmas Shopping with a Broken HeartThe Crappiest Christmas EverChristmas Eve at the Purple Owl CaféDriving Home for ChristmasThe Bakery on Gloomland StreetRevolt at the North PoleA Bullet for Father ChristmasSanta's Sticky FingersSt. Nicholas of Hell's KitchenThe Tinsel-Free Christmas TreeChristmas on Iago PrimeChristmas after the End of the World