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Santa Claus, my dear old good friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murderer, a liar, but most detrimental of most you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. You may have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am arriving for your head.... I am arriving to get back what is mine, to get back Yuletide....
—from Krampus The writer and musician of The Child Thief comes back with a modern fabulist tale of Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark adversary of Santa Claus. One Xmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone State, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a odd spectacle: seven devilish characters chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. Once the reindeer step skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa in to the clouds, screams follow. Moments later, a big sack plummets back to earth, a mysterious sack that thrusts the down-on-his-luck singer into the handbags of the terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus. But the lines between good and bad become blurred as Jesse's new get good at reveals many dark secrets about the cherry-cheeked Santa Claus, including how half a millennium ago the jolly old saint imprisoned Krampus and usurped his magic. Now Santa's time is jogging short, for the Yule Lord is set to obtain his retribution and reclaim Yuletide. If Jesse can survive this traditional feud, he might have the opportunity to redeem himself in his family's eye, to save lots of his own shattered dreams... and also to help bring the magic of Yule to the impoverished folk of Boone State.
