Here's a Christmas present I discovered at the beginning of the year: my Krampus short story "Saint Nicholas' Helper" is at Pseudopod, in time for the holidays! Being as it's at Pseudopod, it is not a nice story. But if you dark fiction to go with the darkest nights of the year, I hope you enjoy it.

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Click the PW link, scroll down a little bit, and you'll see that the anthology She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Horror earned a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! And among several of the other stories mentioned in the review, "Last Respects" gets a shout-out. Halle-freaking-lujah!

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I want to feed my Frankenstein needs. Help me out.

After listening to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein in October, I've become kind of curious as to when Frankenstein's monster went from being a tortured villian/misunderstood outsider and was transformed into Frankenstein: ass-kicking outsider hero. Or am I just imagining that incarnation?

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