Dreaming of a Dark Christmas: Dark Holiday, #1

By Lucy Varna, C.D. Watson, Celia Roman and V.R. Cumming

Four dark tales of the holiday spirit.

"Christmas Eve Gift" by C.D. Watson. Old Bill sets out on her annual Christmas Eve journey to her niece's house, and encounters an unexpected darkness along the way.

"A Dark Christmas" by V.R. Cumming. (A World of the Vampyr short story.) Alice, a dark daughter of the vampire Elizabet, turns the table on a family of hunters, with unexpected consequences. 

"On the 7th Day of Christmas" by Celia Roman. (A Sunshine Walkingstick short story.) Sunny finally gets to throw a party with her friend David Eckstrom, only a monster shows up and twists a small kink into her New Year's Eve festivities.

"Twelfth Night" by Lucy Varna. (A Daughters of the People short story.) A thirteen-year-old Lukas Alexiou encounters the Woman with No Face for the first time, and must decide between seizing his destiny, or allowing his father to control him forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bone Diggers Press
• Release date: Dec 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781943465330

Lucy Varna

Lucy Varna lives in Georgia, USA, surrounded by her large, extended family. She dreamed up the world of the People in 2009 and wrote the first novel in her Daughters of the People series, The Prophecy, in November 2013. The Daughters are based on a mythology Lucy created to explain the origins of the Amazons of Greek legends. The original Daughters of the People series will consist of seven novels, with two interstitial novels and other stories published as Lucy has time.

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