From Barnes & NobleThis dark fantasy anthology adds an element of horror, or at least fright to the ho-ho-ho of the season. Holidays Are Hell gathers novellas by four hot young authors on paranormal themes: Kim Harrison (For a Few Demons More), Lyndsay Sands (A Quick Bite), Marjorie M. Liu (Dark Dreamers) and Vicki Pettersson (The Scent of Shadows). A thrilling stocking stuffer.
Library JournalIn this unusual paranormal collection by some of the genre's best-known authors, readers are treated to a surfeit of holiday romances that range from Thanksgiving to Chinese New Year. A fledgling witch invokes a spirit with frighteningly unexpected results in Harrison's winter-set "Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel"; a woman on the run from the madman who turned her into a shape-shifter finds unexpected love in Lynsay Sands's "Run, Run, Rudolph"; a Chinese undercover antiterrorist operative and a renegade necromancer join to stop a band of life-stealing vampires in Marjorie M.
