![]() ![]() “The Snowmama” brings some entertaining playfulness and silly puns (soul becomes Snowl) to the living-snowman idea. Apparitions, strange noises, a madman, a kitchen knife, and a Stephen King–ish turn near the end-all these make “Dark Christmas” very dark indeed. Henry feel as its hero discovers the explanations behind the magic that cures his misanthropy. In “Spirit of Christmas,” a child trapped in “BUYBUYBABY, the world’s biggest department store,” helps a couple shed their materialism. She is especially good with the supernatural, using eerie and magical elements in ways that hark back to Poe and Dickens. ![]() Winterson ( The Gap of Time, 2015, etc.), the versatile British writer, has gathered 12 Yule-themed stories in a book laced with bits of autobiography both in the introduction-a handy guide to the history of Christmas-and in the dishes she describes after each tale. ![]() Ghosts, fairies, self-revelation, and friendly seasonal recipes give this collection a potentially wide-ranging appeal for readers as well as gift shoppers. ![]()
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