In the midst of these celebrations, the feeling of sharing as a family revives year after year. The long Christmas conversations and reflections around the table could become the terror of each one. There are those who are allergic to love, fraternity or the nostalgia that comes with the “white Christmas” celebrations. Santa Claus, the Polar Bear and Rodolfo can wait their turn because Christmas is also a date to freeze the veins and get scared. What would happen if you knew about the dark past of this festivity? That is why today we bring you three classics of literature for terrify you on these dates:
THE TRUE ORIGIN OF KRAMPUS
In the Christmas season, in the middle of the snow mountains, the houses receive Santa Claus and his friendly reindeer that cross the sky to distribute peace, love and gifts to those who behaved well, but the writer Lara Hopler presents in this I book another visitor, Krampus, a hideous hairy creature, with prominent horns and a long tongue who does not come to distribute toys, but to take the most mischievous in his sack and give them a lesson.
Not seen on Christmas cards, this terrifying beast arrives armed with a giant sack to carry its prey, a trident and a whipping brush. The legend of this mythical being was born in the Alps, where it is a figure integrated into the folklore of several European countries. Now, in a book, Lara Hopler tells us its origin in this hilarious story, enriched with a curious compilation of creepy traditional illustrations.
THE GLOW
One of Stephen King’s classics introduces us to Danny, a boy just five years old, who moves with his father and mother to live at the Overlook Hotel during the snow season. His father, an unsuccessful writer, accepts this job in order to continue with the story that will lead him to stardom, but this place harbors a dark past and the three of them quickly find themselves involved in mysterious apparitions and obsessions with which to coexist under tons of snow.
While Dany walks the corridors of the hotel, she sees the word REDRUM written on the wall with what appears to be blood, despite not knowing how to read, she understands that it is a horror message and it begins to be difficult to differentiate between reality and fantasy. . But he had proof that his fantasies related to the glow would end up coming true. At the same time, his father becomes obsessed with something very bad, with death and suicide, and his sanity is consumed by the more than one hundred rooms of that hotel where they must stay for six months.
CHRISTMAS STORY
This short story by Charles Dickens is the story of Mr. Scrooge, a miserly, stingy and lonely man who keeps his Christmas spirit off; he doesn’t celebrate, he just keeps his mind busy making money. On Christmas Eve, the stingy man receives a visit from the ghost of his former partner and tells him that, for having been so greedy, his evil has become a long and heavy chain with which he will have to carry for eternity.
He predicts a stormy future, but Scrooge defies the prediction, that night the three Christmas spirits appear, the one from the past, the one from the present and the terrible and gloomy spirit from the future. The three of them will take the protagonist of “A Christmas Carol” through a journey through their childhood memories, the celebration of others who, in the face of adversity, share what little they have and at the last moment will show him the looting of their house, the the way in which he is remembered, the death of a child and the most horrifying his own grave, which will make him change his mind.
