Holiday Misadventures
AUTHORS: Johanna Bertin, Joyce Glasner, Andrew Hind, Maria da Silva, Rich Mole
FORMAT: 5.5 x 8.5 pb / 168 pages
ISBN-10: 1-55439-236-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-55439-236-0
$9.95
The Christmas season is the one time of year that we all put aside the demands of the everyday to celebrate with friends and family; share stories, warm memories, and traditions; and feast on home-cooked food. But what happens when life simply won't pause in the name of good cheer and festive revelry? This unusual holiday collection brings to life the tales of Christmases gone wrong: Christmastime castaways dreaming of holiday ham, a Sable Island mystery, murder and mayhem in yuletide Yukon, spirits of Christmas of a different kind, and many others. Merry misadventures!
Prologue
The true-life accounts featured in this unusual Christmas collection may vary in theme, topic, style, and even region, but they all explore the darker side of the season. Christmas is the one time of the year when most of the country puts aside the demands of everyday life to celebrate with holiday cheer. What happens, though, when life simply won't step aside for Christmas? Amazing Stories® authors Joyce Glasner, Johanna Bertin, Andrew Hind, Maria da Silva, and Rich Mole bring to life the tragic, mysterious, harrowing, chilling, murderous, and inspiring stories of Christmastime gone awry. These tales of struggle, disaster, and adventure remind us to count ourselves lucky if we are able to enjoy a peaceful holiday season and the love of family and friends this Christmas.
About the Authors
Johanna Bertin has long been fascinated with Sable Island, and researching the story of the Frances was a labour of love. Johanna has written three other books for Altitude Publishing: Strange Events: Incredible Canadian Monsters, Curses, Ghosts, and Other Tales; Strange Events and More: Canadian Giants, Witches, Wizards, and Other Tales; and Sable Island: Tales of Tragedy and Survival from the Graveyard of the Atlantic. She is working on her next book, Strange Events of the East Coast. Johanna lives in Smithfield, NB.
Joyce Glasner studied gold and silversmithing at the New Brunswick School of Craft and Design before earning her BA with honours in English at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. She is an editor, freelance writer, and the author of The Halifax Explosion: Surviving the Blast that Shook a Nation; Christmas in Atlantic Canada: Heartwarming Legends, Tales, and Traditions; and Pirates and Privateers: Swashbuckling Stories from the East Coast. Joyce lives in Halifax, NS.
Andrew Hind is a freelance writer whose feature articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers in Canada, the United States, and England. He developed a passion for history early on, especially for unusual and obscure events and people who are typically overlooked or quickly forgotten. He hopes, through his writing, to bring these fascinating stories to light for a modern audience. Andrew lives in Bradford, ON. Andrew and Maria da Silva are the authors of Strange Events of Ontario: Chilling Tales of Phantoms, Curses, and Hauntings and are researching their next book, Ghost Town Stories of Ontario.
Maria da Silva has always had a passion for history and ghost stories. Coming from Portugal, a country full of history and the unknown, she never dreamed that her future would lead her into writing about the forgotten and the unexplained. Maria's work, co-authored with Andrew Hind, has appeared in publications such as Fate and Mystery Magazine. Andrew and Maria are the authors of Strange Events of Ontario: Chilling Tales of Phantoms, Curses, and Hauntings and are researching their next book, Ghost Town Stories of Ontario.
Rich Mole is a former broadcaster, a freelance journalist, communications consultant, and the president of a successful Vancouver Island advertising agency. He is the author of Altitude Publishing's Klondike trilogy, Gold Fever, Murder and Mystery in the Yukon, and Rebel Women of the Klondike. His other Altitude titles include Christmas in BC and Christmas in the Prairies. Rich can be reached at ramole@telus.net.
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