Christmas Magic

by David G. Hartwell

Overview

Collected by award-winning anthologist David G. Hartwell, here is a stockingful of classic Christmas fantasies

Wonders abound at Christmas, and never more so than in this delightful collection of holiday stories by some of today’s most gifted writers of fantasy and science-fiction. In this volume, Harlan Ellison, Alan Dean Foster, Kit Reed, Howard Waldrop, Donald Westlake, and many other science fiction and fantasy stars present their unique visions of Christmas.

Toys come to life for one miraculous hour. A little girl sets forth on a quest to join Santa’s elves. Talking animals, away in a manger, bring two lovers together, and a small boy discovers the secret of Santa’s tenth reindeer. These and other stories raise Christmas spirits to fantastic new heights, and find unexpected twists and surprises in even the oldest of holiday traditions.

Sorcery comes gift wrapped this year, and just in time for Christmas Magic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765315809
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

DAVID G. HARTWELL, widely acclaimed as the most influential SF editor of his age, has won the World Fantasy Award and multiple Hugo Awards for hise ditorial work. He lives in Pleasantville, New York. www.davidghartwell.com

Table of Contents

Scramblepipe tries to understand: the gnomes who set out for Christmas and found that the world is round / Anonymous
Nackles / Donald Westgate
Another dime, another place / A.J. Austin
Bedlam Inn / Madeleine Robins
The last castle of Christmas / Alexander Jablokov
An old-fashioned bird Christmas / Margaret St. Clair
The wild wood / Mildred Clingerman
Santa rides a saucer / Donald A. Wollheim
Grandfather Christmas / Robert Frazier, James Patrick Kelly
The outpost undiscovered by tourists: a tale of three kings and a star for this sacred season / Harlan Ellison
Diesel dream / Alan Dean Foster
Santa Clause / Robert F. Young
Grandma Babka's Christmas ginger / Ken Wisman
Death in the Christmas hour / James Powell
The Boxing Day spectre / Kit Reed
The toy mill / David Nickle, Karl Schroeder
The hundred-year Christmas / David Morell
Santa's tenth reindeer / Gordon Van Gelder
Tick / M.J. Engh
Merry Gravmas / James P. Hogan
The nutcracker coup / Janet Kagan
Training talk no. 12 / David R. Bunch
The last Belsnickel / Chet Williamson
A child's Christmas in Florida / William Browning Spencer
LaZelle family Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Ixchel's tears / José R. Nieto
A midnight clear / Wil McCarthy, Gregory R. Hide
Household words: or the powers-that-be / Howard Waldrop