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Book Review: CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HORRORS, Edited by Ellen Datlow

Cover of Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology

… [The] majority (even those that might be set around Christmas) are really about solstice, that moment when the sun stops on its journey across Earth’s skies to change course. As many traditions of modern Christmas celebration are really appropriation and secularization of more ancient pagan festivities, several stories could be seen from either or combined perspectives.