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    The Christmas MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Yuletide Stories
    The Christmas MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Yuletide Stories
    The Christmas MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Yuletide Stories
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    The Christmas MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Yuletide Stories

    By Johnston McCulley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Gary Lovisi and

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    Christmas -- the very word conjures up memories of the most wondrous childhood holiday of all--filled with the glitter of colorfully-wrapped presents, family visits, carols, photographs, decorating the tree, attendance at church to celebrate the birth of the Christ child, and tummy-stuffing dinners tucked with treats seen at no other time of the year. But the yule holiday has been celebrated for at least two centuries in North America, and our writers have been producing memorable stories about this unique day for almost as long.


    Here are 25 Christmas stories old and new, tales to delight, to entrance, to beguile, and even to sadden a whole new generation of readers. From Nina Kiriki Hoffman's poignant "Lazelle Family Christmas" to Jacob A. Riis's gut-wrenching portrait of the holiday in the 1890s slums of New York to Johnston McCulley's riveting tale of Christmas in the Old West, we experience every possible facet of this most precious day of the year.


    So sit back and relive your memories once again, as recreated through the eyes of some of the finest writers of their time!


    Included in this volume are:


    INTRODUCTION, by Robert Reginald

    THE SUBSTITUTE SHOPPER, by Edna A. Collamore

    CAN’T SEE THE TREE FOR THE FOREST by Skadi meic Beorh

    THE GIFT, by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen

    SANTA’S STOLEN SACK, by S. Omar Barker

    CHRISTMAS TREE DETAIL, by Johnston McCulley

    THE SANTA TRAP, by Robin Aurelian

    LAZELLE FAMILY CHRISTMAS, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    THE CHRISTMAS CRAZIES: A GRIFF & FATS STORY, by Gary Lovisi

    SCROOGE 3000, by Michael McCarty

    A HELL OF A CHRISTMAS, by Michael McCarty

    THE CHRISTMAS BANE, by S. Clayton Rhodes

    THE CHRISTMAS EVE GHOST, by Ernest Dudley

    DOG EAT DOG: A CHRISTMAS TALE, by Robert Reginald

    WHEN THE YULE LOG BURNS, by Leona Dalrymple

    MERRY CHRISTMAS IN THE TENEMENTS, by Jacob A. Riis

    THE RAPTURE OF HETTY, by Mary Hallock Foote

    THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL, by Henry Van Dyke

    CHRISTMAS: A STORY, by Zona Gale

    COLONEL CROCKETT’S CO-OPERATIVE CHRISTMAS, by Rupert Hughes

    THE BIRDS’ CHRISTMAS CAROL, by Kate Douglas Wiggin

    THE MERRYVALE BOYS: CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AT MERRYVALE, by Alice Hale Burnett

    PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD-WILL TO DOGS, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

    HOW IT HAPPENED, by Kate Langley Bosher

    THE LITTLE CITY OF HOPE: A CHRISTMAS STORY, by F. Marion Crawford

    ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE EVENING , by Grace S. Richmond


    And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Megapack" to see other volumes in the series, from science fiction to ghost stories to mysteries...and many more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateNov 2, 2012
    ISBN9781434445605
    The Christmas MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Yuletide Stories
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    Johnston McCulley

    Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) was an American novelist and short story writer. Born and raised in Illinois, McCulley began his career with The Police Gazette as a police reporter. During World War I, he served as a public affairs author for the United States Army. After the war, he began writing stories for such pulp magazines as Argosy and All-Story Weekly. His novel The Curse of Capistrano, serialized in 1919, marked the first appearance in print of his beloved character Zorro, a masked vigilante fighting on behalf of California’s Chicano and indigenous populations. Spawning countless adaptations for film and television, Zorro made McCulley’s name as a leading popular fiction writer of the early twentieth century.

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