Finished - Nackles
Dec. 24th, 2006 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mokie_shifu"Nackles," by Curt Clark (or by Donald Westlake under the pseudonym Curt Clark; readable here) is a contemporary Christmas horror story about an abusive schmuck who invents an anti-Santa to scare his children.
His anti-Santa Nackles bears a more than passing resemblance to Knecht Ruprecht (in name especially there) and Krampus, Germanic baddies who would drag away or otherwise abuse bad children, but the bit about the coal train and dead goats was a very nice touch.
The build-up is good, even if the outcome is obvious.
His anti-Santa Nackles bears a more than passing resemblance to Knecht Ruprecht (in name especially there) and Krampus, Germanic baddies who would drag away or otherwise abuse bad children, but the bit about the coal train and dead goats was a very nice touch.
The build-up is good, even if the outcome is obvious.
