241 reviews for:

The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures

Sarah Clegg

3.84 AVERAGE

the_perdita's review against another edition

4.75

dark informative mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

_amanda_h's review

5.0

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This was so much fun! All the little traditions and tales that carry on through the holidays are connected and explained with humor and loving detail. There's so much more to winter and the new year than a nativity play, and now I want to travel in December all the time.

nae20's review

3.75

dark informative medium-paced

katiemorgan77's review

3.0

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Thought it was just going to be history in a sort of story form rather than an academic travelogue, still interesting though.

tashawallace95's review

5.0

dark funny informative mysterious medium-paced

nuebi's review

1.5

dark slow-paced

keri_underwood's review

3.5

adventurous dark informative reflective slow-paced

sebrittainclark's review against another edition

4.5

dark informative fast-paced

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This was an incredibly interesting book about the history of Christmas monsters and ghosts from how they came to become folklore to their ongoing evolution and popularity. This wasn't something I had thought about much before, but I found it so interesting to find out what we know about these stories origins and what the can tell us about how Christmas, and midwinter in general, was celebrated historically in Europe.

Thanks to Netgalley and Algonquin Books for an early copy.

k_bloss's review

4.0

dark informative slow-paced

sframe_79's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark informative mysterious reflective slow-paced