The Christmas Collection

Sixteen tales of Christmas by Hugo winner Cora Buhlert.

Romance, cozy fantasy, murder mysteries, pulp thrillers, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, horror and humor – we have all that and more.

Watch young people find love in the pre-holiday shopping rush at Hickory Ridge Mall, at a Christmas tree lot, on the parking lot of a shuttered outlet mall and at the one bar in town that's open on Christmas Eve.

Experience Christmas in Hallowind Cove, the permanently fog-shrouded seaside town, where strange things keep happening.

Watch as Santa's various helpers unite to depose him.

Massachusetts 1695 AD: Follow apprentice witchfinder Matthew Goodson and condemned witch Grace Pankhurst, as they try to dodge both witchfinders and a creature that lives in the woods and hunts around the winter solstice.

Follow Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd and her team as they investigate the death of a robber dressed as Santa Claus as well as a wave of thefts at a Christmas market.

Meet Richard Blakemore, hardworking pulp author by day and the masked crimefighter known only as the Silencer by night, as he fights to save an orphanage from demolition in Depression era New York City.

Watch Alfred and Bertha, an ordinary married couple, as they decorate the Christmas tree and live their marvellous twenty-first century life.

No one ever expected the robot apocalypse to begin in the little town of Brighthaven. And no one ever expected it to involve murderous robot turkeys and their even more terrifying brethren, robot Santas that fire laserbeams from their eyes.

Experience Christmas on the space colony of Iago Prime as well as after the end of the world.

Enjoy sixteen novellas, novelettes and short stories in six genres.

This is a collection of 136000 words or approx. 420 print pages.

Contains the following stories:

Christmas Gifts

Christmas Shopping with a Broken Heart

The Crappiest Christmas Ever

Christmas Eve at the Purple Owl Café

Driving Home for Christmas

The Bakery on Gloomland Street

Revolt at the North Pole

The Solstice Horror

A Bullet for Father Christmas

Santa's Sticky Fingers

St. Nicholas of Hell's Kitchen

The Tinsel-Free Christmas Tree

The Robot Turkey Apocalypse

Invasion of the Robot Santas

Christmas on Iago Prime

Christmas after the End of the World