![]() ![]() ![]() Nicholas doles out the presents for the nice ones. Nicholas from around Europe depict him as accompanied or preceded by some more sinister figure who is responsible for doling out punishments to naughty children while St. I can hear feminists screaming, “Where are her organs?!?” Both the cover and the illustrations throughout are by the author. Since Brom’s first talent is drawing, the book is lavishly illustrated. He followed that up by taking on the jolly saint of Christmas, reimagining him as a brawny, sword-wielding Norse god locked in a mortal duel with a devil-like Krampus in a continuation of the ancient rivalry between Loki and everyone else in the Norse pantheon. This is, so I understand, the second novel by Brom, an illustrator and game designer who made his debut as a novelist with The Child Thief, a subversion of Peter Pan. ![]() ![]() Krampus: The Yule Lord, a Santa Claus novel for people who hate Santa Claus, is undeniably entertaining, but someone would have to be a serious Scrooge to embrace it unreservedly. Krampus: The Yule Lord, written and illustrated by Brom. ![]()
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