![]() ![]() Now Santa's time is running short, for the Yule Lord is determined to have his retribution and reclaim Yuletide. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. When the reindeer leap skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. ![]() 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. 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 I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide. You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming for your head. 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. ![]()
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