Krampus: The Yule Lord

Krampus: The Yule Lord

<i>            Santa<br />Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murder, a<br />liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood.</i><br /><br /><i>You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming to<br />take your head. I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide...</i><br /><br /> <br /><br />            The author<br />and artist of <i>The Child Thief</i> returns with a modern fabulist tale of<br />Krampus, the Lord of Yule and mortal enemy of Santa Claus.<br /><br /><br />            One<br />Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling<br />songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures<br />chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the<br />reindeer leap skyward taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds,<br />screams follow. Moments later, a large sack plummets earthward, a magical sack<br />that will thrust the down-on-his luck singer into the clutches of the<br />terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus. But the lines between good and evil become<br />blurred as Jesse's new master reveals many dark secrets about the<br />cherry-cheeked Santa Claus, and how half a millennium ago, the jolly old saint<br />imprisoned Krampus and usurped his magic. <br /><br />            Now Santa's<br />time is running short, for the Yule Lord is determined to have his retribution<br />and reclaim Yuletide. If Jesse can survive this ancient feud, he might have the<br />chance to redeem himself to his family, to save his own broken dreams...and<br />help bring the magic of Yule to the impoverished folk of Boone County.