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Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
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Discover the monsters, witches, and other ghoulish creatures that make up lesser known Christmas folklore in this gleefully creepy guide–perfect for horror fans who love the wintry holidays.
When you think about Christmas, you likely picture mangers, glowing fireplaces, sweet carolers, and snow-blanketed hills. But behind all this bright magic, there’s something much darker lurking in the shadows. In The Dead of Winter, Cambridge-trained historian Sarah Clegg delves deep into the folklore of the Christmas season in Europe, detailing the way its terrifying and often debaucherous past continues to haunt and entertain us now in the twenty-first century.
Perfect for the growing mainstream audience obsessed with horror and monsters, this guide makes the perfect gift.
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The 10 enlightening (and often humorous) lectures of Medieval Myths and Mysteries will show you how far from the “dark” times of legend these centuries were. Uncover the facts about the Knights Templar. Reveal the truth behind the tales of legendary creatures like the Questing Beast and the unicorn. Trace the events of the Black Death and the ways it altered the world in its wake, and much more. With Professor Armstrong, you will dig deep into the ways that later generations reshaped the narrative of the medieval years and perpetuated the myths.
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Interesting, but centered on Britain
- De Ximena en 04-10-20
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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it's Nearly perfect
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The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi's classic The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu. Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai swordsman and his works, and in this book he illuminates this seminal text, along with several other works by Musashi.
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Best translation I have encountered.
- De DW en 05-27-16
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Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on 40 years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams.
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What the F. Robot-reader???!?!?!
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Buddhism for Beginners
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This user’s guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions - beginning with “What is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings?” - and provides simple answers in plain English. Thubten Chodron’s responses to the questions that always seem to arise among people approaching Buddhism make this an exceptionally complete and accessible introduction - as well as a manual for living a more peaceful, mindful, and satisfying Life.
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Amazing introduction to Buddhism
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I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)
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Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.
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I'm sure its great if you are a mother ....
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Caffeine
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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Leaves much to be desired
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What flair!
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An interesting listen.
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Cool stories, annoying conversation
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Not so much scary
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excellent
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Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures. Rife with the more frightful characters from folklore and the season's most petulant ghosts, this book takes you on a spooky sleigh ride from the silvered firs of a winter forest to the mirrored halls of the Snow Queen.
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An interesting listen.
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Interesting
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Hugo Award-winning editor, and horror legend Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, and many more. This anthology of all-new stories invites you to huddle around the fire and revel in the unholy, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a time when families and friends come together—for better and for worse.
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Excellent and Eclectic
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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. When the reindeer leap skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. 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.
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5 stars
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Gabrielle Greene has just been crowned the worst girl who ever lived, and she doesn’t know it yet but she’s leaped to the top of Krampus’ naughty list. Krampus, the mysterious sinister Winter King. Krampus the warden of Christmas who comes calling once a year seeking wicked children to haul back to his snowy lands.
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Fun story!
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A classic tale- well read
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They live in shadows - deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an unenlightened age, old wives' tales, passed down through generations. Yet no matter how wary and jaded we have become, as individuals or as a society, a part of us remains vulnerable to them: werewolves and wendigos, poltergeists and vampires, angry elves and vengeful spirits.
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Chilling tales told in midwinter around a warm fire date back to antiquity. It is the time of year when days are short, darkness lingers, and the barrier separating the living from the dead is thin. Stories of the stark cold and the visits from the dead remind us of the warm blessings of hearth and home.
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No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the upheaval that began that day. Young Afghans knew the promise of freedom, democracy, and safety, fought with each other over its meaning―and then witnessed its collapse. In Twenty Years, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Sune Engel Rasmussen draws on more than a decade of reporting from the country to tell Afghanistan’s story from a new angle.
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
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OK if you like politics, not good for the science
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- ladybrooklyn
- 11-23-24
Fantastic Holiday fare!
I really wish the entire book had been read by the author (she reads the intro and epilogue), as I preferred her vocals... and it would have been fitting given this book is a sort of "travelog" of her research.
Regardless... this is a fantastic little tomb collecting all of the "Christmas monsters" of legend and myth. A must for the season!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-21-24
I liked the multiple tails and histories linked together.
I overall enjoyed this read. I’m not sure why people were complaining about the narrator, I thought her voice was great. While I understand the authors voice may sounded a little little more youthful or something to that effect I don’t think it would’ve changed the story for the better.
Overall, I liked hearing the different stories and histories of how they’re all kind of linked together not really just one overall making up the current holidays we celebrate etc.
The explanation of how older tales may have contributed to other ones that came later that all contributed possibly to once now with no definitive answer.
The only issue I had was at certain times. I wasn’t sure when they were talking about the actual tales or the real life experience of the author, Other than that, I will reread it to listen again it was an interesting take. I think I will even enjoy it more the second time around.
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- Kimberly L
- 12-11-24
Fascinating and Enchanting!
I absolutely loved this book! If you're interested in fairy tales, folklore, or simply the origins of a beloved holiday, this book is for you! Sarah Clegg does a fantastic job tracing the threads of traditions only now coming back into our collective consciousness like Krampus, the Mari Lwyd, and other tales that we may have heard of but aren't very familiar with. It struck me that I've always known Christmas has a darker side, but I didn't know quite how to describe it or why it existed. Now, I feel well-versed in the subject. My only complaint is that the book isn't longer! I wish I could have made it last the whole Christmas season, but it was too fascinating! I've already sent this book to several friends, and I have a feeling it will get passed around quite a bit before the new year.
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- Joseph Sullivan
- 03-23-25
The audiobook was ...
a unique and reflective narrative of darkness during the Christmas holiday. I found the authors authentic, engaging voice personable. The inflections she showed in her stories breathed such life into the words in this book.
I wish the author read the whole audiobook. The other narrator I found emotionless, and flat. The author has a distinct energy in her narration that's full of life, feeling and gives the audience a connect to what she's sharing. This voiceover talent is rare.
A good voice can captive and help bring to life the written word. A bad voiceover can hurt the written word by dull, lifeless narration.
I hope the author reduces this audiobook. She is a gifted writter and narrator. I also hope she will do more audio narrations in the future.
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- Karin Conti
- 12-23-24
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Oh my Krampus!! Thank you so much for this. I found this one. I wasn’t feeling very Christmasy. I’ve had some health issues this year and this was absolutely delightful.! It will become forever more one of my favorite Christmas traditions to listen to.!
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- Austin Bow
- 01-14-25
An Amazing Dive into the the History of Winter Tales
An amazing deep dive into the rich history of Christmas beasts and traditions. I learned so much from this work and thought it walked a perfect line of historically based facts and entertaining story telling. The fact that the author has taken the time to personally experience the modern day versions of the traditions she describes really adds to the work!
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- H Johnson
- 12-28-24
So cool
I really enjoyed the story telling and that she made it a kinda ethnography with lots of history! Very enjoyable listen
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- J. Timmerman
- 12-03-24
Dark Christmas
This is such a wonderful collection of the darker traditions of the Christmas season and their origins.
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- Ruthie
- 12-30-24
fascinating
This was a fascinating look at the history behind some of Christmas's spookiest characters. loved learning about Christmas folk lores from all around Europe.
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- Sabrina N. Frang
- 12-12-24
The best non-fiction book about dark Christmas
I did not know what to expect from The Dead of Winter, but I was absolutely in love with this book from start to finish. It talks about how many of our Christmas traditions got started, via their, often pagan. roots. This book reads like part historical text and part travelog as the author engages in Christmas and pre-Christmas traditions. The Dead of Winter mostly looks at the darker side of Christmas-think Krampus, striga witches, the eerie story of Saint Lucy, and Twelfth Night celebrations. I found this book informative and entertaining. The author has a very dramatic tone at times, but it is done on purpose, for certain accounts to read like a campfire tale or a Christmas Eve ghost story. It is all in good fun. She also talks about the truth vs. myths about pagan religions and how pagan traditions and myths have been warped by certain authors to be more insidious than they were.
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