Christmas Ghosts

by Mike Resnick (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Brian M. Thomsen (Contributor)

Introduction (Christmas Ghosts) • essay by Mike Resnick
"Hunger" • Michelle West [as by Michelle Sagara ]
"Merry Christmas, No. 30267" • Frank M. Robinson
"The One that Got Away" • Mark Aronson
"Elephantoms" • Lawrence Schimel
"A Foreigner's Christmas in China" • Maureen F. McHugh
"Upon a Midnight Dreary" • Laura Resnick
"Modern Mansions" • Barbara Delaplace
"Cadenza" • Terry McGarry
"Gordian Angel" • Jack Nimersheim
"The Timbrel Sound of Darkness" • Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
"A Prophet for Chanukah" • Deborah J. Wunder
"Dumb Feast" • Mercedes Lackey
"Shades of Light and Darkness" • Josepha Sherman
"The River Lethe Is Made of Tears" • John Gregory Betancourt
"Absent Friends" • Martha Soukup
"Presentes" • Nicholas A. DiChario
"Peter's Ghost" • Marie A. Parsons
"The Case of the Skinflint's Specters" • Brian M. Thomsen
"Christmas Presence" • Kate Daniel
"The Ghost of Christmas Scams" • Lea Hernandez
"Wishbook Days" • Janni Lee Simner
"Holiday Station" • Judith Tarr
"State Road" • Alan Dormire and Robin J. Nakkula
"The Ghosts of Christmas Future" • Dean Wesley Smith
"Three Wishes before a Fire" • Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"The Ghost of Christmas Sideways" • David Gerrold
"The Bear Who Found Christmas" • Alan Rodgers

Genres: Fantasy, Anthologies, Christmas, Short Stories, Holiday, Horror, Fiction

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick, better known by his published name Mike Resnick, was a popular and prolific American science fiction author. He is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He was the winner of five Hugos, a Nebula, and other major awards in the United States, France, Spain, Japan, Croatia and Poland. and has been short-listed for major awards in England, Italy and Australia. He was the author of 68 novels, over 250 stories, and 2 screenplays, and was the editor of 41 anthologies. His work has been translated into 25 languages. He was the Guest of Honor at the 2012 Worldcon and can be found online as @ResnickMike on Twitter or at www.mikeresnick.com.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice collection of original Christmas stories, not up to the level of Connie Willis (who is right up there with Rudolph and Linus and Droppo in my mind), but nicely in the league and spirit of the Hartwell anthologies. It contains twenty-seven shorter-than-average stories and is fun reading for a December evening by the fireplace.