THE TWELVE EVEN STRANGER DAYS OF CHRISTMAS by SYD MOORE.
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Publication Date: 28th October 2021
Standalone Book of Short Stories
Estimated Page Count: 272
From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come twelve (or maybe thirteen?) stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena.
As the dark winter nights get longer, prepare to lose yourself in the world of the strange. With a tale for each day of Christmas and a rather unlucky 13th, Christmas is not the only spirit in these pages. ‘Tis the season for sacrificial feasts, cultish communities and a train with a rather final destination. So wrap up warm and let yourself get lost in the world of the strange, the scary and the supernatural… ... Synopsis
{Please note because this is a collection of short stories I won't as is customary be sharing either the First Sentence or my Memorable Moment. FGT}
MY THOUGHTS ... Whether written by a number of writers or, as is the case with this book, one author, as is usually the case with these collections of short stories there are some that are enjoyable and some less so; some that hit the mark and others that, well, don't quite.
For myself it was probably the first story I enjoyed the most. I mean who could fail to be anything other than intrigued to discover that the seven dwarves were not in fact ...?
Ha! As if I'm going to tell you. You'll have to read the book for yourself in order to find this out.
Strangely enough a series of not twelve but thirteen short stories from 2 to 48 pages long; ranging from the quirky to the downright weird, whilst there is a story {plus a bonus one} for every day of Christmas many of them aren't explicitly Christmas themed ... indeed, several of them classic ghost stories and tales of the supernatural {to say nothing of Rogation, the blessing of a community's crops and animals, that takes places a few weeks after Easter}, the twelve Stranger Days Of Christmas is just as well suited to Halloween as it is to Christmas.
Ideal to read whilst putting your feet up and enjoying a cuppa as the nights darken, though be warned you may find one cup of your favourite beverage leads to another just as one story invariably leads to another ... and another.
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