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Weird Xmas Flash Fiction 2022 (Contest Results)

December 31, 2022 Craig

NO TALK! NO BORINGNESS! STRAIGHT TO THE STORIES!!! (Except that the opening quote is from Celebrant by Michael Cisco. He’s awesome. He has nothing at

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Podcast! Ancient Christmas with Earl Fontainelle of the SHWEP

December 23, 2022 Craig

I talk to Earl Fontainelle of the SHWEP (Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast). We try to trace down any textual evidence that would connect

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Podcast! Mari Lwyd with Benito Cereno

December 19, 2022 Craig

Listen here or at the Podbean site. Benito and I discuss the traditions surrounding the Mari Lwyd, getting into similarities with other European wassailing and

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Christmas Meatballs

December 2, 2022 Craig

I’ve seen people mistake UK Christmas pudding for meatballs in some of these cards before. But this year, it has become THE joke. Or misidentification.

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Christmas Dead Birds Dying More Dead With Death

November 30, 2022 Craig

I keep finding more dead bird cards. Not all of them are specifically Christmas-related, but… whatever, this is my hobby. I answer to no one.

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Burn Your Nuts! It’s Halloween!

October 25, 2022 Craig

If you set your nuts on fire, you’ll know if s/he will love you forever. Or I guess technically, the idea is that if you

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Podcast! The Ghost Story of Christmas 2021ish – “A Strange Christmas Game” by Charlotte Riddell

July 31, 2022 Craig

Listen here. SURPRISE CHRISTMAS IN JULY PODCAST! I never quite got this show finished during the season, so my humble apologies. All is now well.

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2022 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest (5th Annual)!

July 19, 2022 Craig

THE RESULTS ARE OUT IN THE WORLD! I’ll post the guidelines to enter next year’s show sometime this summer. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I’m sweating, and my shorts

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The Question Concerning Frogs (vom Heidegger)

June 29, 2022 Craig

I sympathize with those who ask why an account dedicated to strange vintage holiday stuff seems to become a home for retro images of amphibians

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Podcast: Christmas Past, American Xmas Literary History with Thomas Ruys Smith

January 9, 2022 Craig

I chat with Thomas Ruys Smith, editor of Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth Century America and Professor of American Literature and

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2021 Weird Xmas Flash Fiction Contest Results

December 31, 2021 Craig

It’s out later than I would have preferred, but like the inevitability of New Year’s following Christmas, it is here. The full text of each

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Podcast! Ghost Stories, Weird Poetry, and All Manner of Old Xmas Weirdness with Christopher Philippo

December 21, 2021 Craig

I chat with Christopher Philippo, editor of Volumes 4 and 5 of the Valancourt Books of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories. But we also talk about

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Frog Murder Christmas

December 16, 2015 Craig

It’s a joke, right? It has to be. There’s no way this can be sentimental. There’s no remote possibility one could look at this and

Dead Birds

December 3, 2015 Craig

These cards get the most disbelief and shock of any I’ve found. So, first, let me answer the usual questions: 1) Are they real? Yes,

Blog for a blog!

December 3, 2015 Craig

“Weird Christmas” will have more text-based content to accompany my tumblr blog http://weirdchristmas.tumblr.com/ which is focused on odd images and outdated traditions of holidays.

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