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Krampus

The Yule Lord

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Krampus

Written by: Brom
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
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Santa Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murderer, a liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming for your head.... I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide....
—from Krampus

The author and artist of The Child Thief returns with a modern fabulist tale of Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark enemy of Santa Claus.

One Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the reindeer leap skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. Moments later, a large sack plummets back to earth, a magical sack that thrusts the down-on-his-luck singer into the clutches of the terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus. But the lines between good and evil become blurred as Jesse's new master 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 running short, for the Yule Lord is determined to have his retribution and reclaim Yuletide. If Jesse can survive this ancient feud, he might have the chance to redeem himself in his family's eyes, to save his own broken dreams... and to help bring the magic of Yule to the impoverished folk of Boone County.

©2012 Gerald Brom (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
Classics Fantasy Horror Scary Celebration Winter Christmas Fiction Norse West Virginia Thief
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An interesting and fantastic take on jolly old Saint Nick

Second Brom book I’ve listened too and I think I’m going to have to add him into my top 5 favourite authors list. His story telling captivated me from the very beginning. I wanted to know more and more as the story went on and I didn’t know where it was going or how it was going to end, in a good way. I love the take on Norse Mythology for the character. The narrator, Kirby Heybourne did a wonderful job bringing each character to life.

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a great story

A fun and interesting take on Christmas with great characters. well narrated but not for kids.

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Fantastoc

I absolutely loved this, could not put it down!
Excellent narration!
A must read for all looking for a good dark christmas read!

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Yule love it.

So much fun to read along. I was really impressed with the performance. I listen to the 1.5 setting and it was fantastic.

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awesome

great story,amazing performance. this might become a yearly tradition. kirby heyborne is awesome I need to find more of his work.

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Great right up until it wasn't.

The narration was good, no complaints on the performance here.

The story itself seemed to lose it's way slightly around the middle of the book, but not really an issue. However I found the ending to be tedious, boring, and drawn out. A few chapters of tying up loose ends to perfection felt incredibly imperfect. The multi-chapter epilogue is the only reason this story lost points with me.

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Meh

After I listened to how good slewfoot was, I had to try this. Was very disappointed

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good but abrupt ending

I really liked the story, but I gave it a low rating because it felt like the whole book was character and story build up and then BAM it all resolved itself in one chapter. it wasn't an arc, so much as a cliff

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