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Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas

Author John Grossman

Format Hardcover

Publisher Stewart, Tabori and Chang

Category Christmas Nonfiction

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Oh, by gosh, by golly. It�s time for . . . rowdy bands of drunkards roaming the streets, lighting firecrackers, and firing off guns? Gangs of masked youths invading people�s houses, demanding food, drink, and money�and threatening to break the windows (or worse) unless they�re given what they want? Welcome to Christmas, circa 1800. Yes, the season of light, joy, and gift-giving was once regarded as a time of darkness, danger, and dissipation�and celebrated with all-too-public displays of noisemaking, inebriation, and gluttonous overeating. (Well, maybe not everything has changed.) And though we tend to imagine Victorian-era Christmases as sentimental gatherings around the candlelit tree, blazing hearth, and festive punchbowl, the 19th-century evidence tells us quite otherwise. Drawing from his extensive collection of antique postcards, greeting cards, advertising giveaways, and other ephemera, author John Grossman presents a picture of Christmas past that, frankly, looks a lot more like Halloween. Broomstick-riding witches and vampire bat�borne cupids deliver New Year�s greetings. Fur-clad fairies gather �round a campfire to roast their Christmas dinner�a huge dead rat. And Saint Nicholas? He�s that skinny guy in the bishop robes who arrives with his dark companion, the Devil-like Krampus brandishing switches to punish the badly behaved. With Christmas Curiosities, STC wishes you a very merry, very scary Christmas.

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John Grossman

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  • Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9781584796992

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