![]() ![]() The bag is the property of Krampus, trickster, a devil who punishes the wicked – and who asserts that he is Jesse’s master, one who will teach him the truth about the cherry-cheeked, jolly old fellow who imprisoned Krampus for five centuries and usurped the pagan god’s own magic. When Jesse steps in to help, the mysterious figures all disappear, leaving behind a large sack – a magical bag that will plunge the down-on- his luck singer into a twisted adventure. ![]() One Christmas Eve, in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, a failed songwriter named Jesse witnesses a strange spectacle: seven thugs cloaked in black attacking a man in a red suit with a sleigh. ![]() The author and artist of The Child Thief returns with a modern fabulist tale of Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark enemy of Santa Claus I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide. ![]() You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming for your head. Santa Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murderer, a liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. ![]()
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