{"id":5779,"date":"2022-12-22T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2022-12-22T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:38:32","slug":"10-books-of-christmas-list-features-the-usual-suspects-and-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/12\/22\/10-books-of-christmas-list-features-the-usual-suspects-and-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Books of Christmas list features the usual suspects . . . and Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shepherd<\/em>, a blog for book lovers, recently posted an article by J\u00f3hannes \u00far K\u00f6tlum on “10 books like Christmas is Coming”<\/a> that starts with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol<\/em>, but instantly moves on to other ghost stories or creepy tales, like The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas<\/em> by Al Ridenour, The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories<\/em> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Walter Scott, and Updike’s The Twelve Terrors of Christmas<\/em>, illustrated by Edward Gorey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No list of the delightfully dark would be complete without an appearance by the preeminent gothic illustrator, Edward Gorey. Gorey\u2019s wry, one-of-a-kind style brings to life (and death) John Updike\u2019s dark deconstruction of 12 Christmas traditions. Though it\u2019s now out of print, this title is a must-have for any Edward Gorey enthusiast, and for any fan of the unlimited imaginative potential when artists look beyond the lights of the holiday season to focus on the shadows instead,” K\u00f6tlum writes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rounding out the list are The Elves And The Shoemaker <\/em>by the Brothers Grimm and Jim LaMarche, Collected Ghost Stories<\/em> by M.R. James, A Yuletide Kiss<\/em> by Glynnis Campbell, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus<\/em> by L. Frank Baum, Six Geese a Laying<\/em> by Emily E.K. Murdoch, and a holiday book not yet ready to give up the ghost: Dark Halloween<\/em> by Eleanor Merry, Cassandra Angler, and Brian Scutt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shepherd, a blog for book lovers, recently posted an article by J\u00f3hannes \u00far K\u00f6tlum on “10 books like Christmas is Coming” that starts with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but instantly moves on to other ghost stories or creepy tales, like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}