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Lucky Girl

How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story
By Mary Rickert
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Ro, a struggling writer facing the loneliness holiday festivities often deepen, invites four equally isolated strangers from a local diner to a spontaneous Christmas dinner. When the evening threatens to end early, she proposes sharing ghost stories that capture the season's eerie spirit. However, Ro soon discovers that the terrors buried within these Christmas tales—and within one’s own past—cannot be contained once they are unleashed.
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This novella appeals to readers of dark fantasy and horror who appreciate atmospheric, psychologically rich stories. It is ideal for those who enjoy gothic tales infused with seasonal dread, complex characters, and literary storytelling that lingers long after the last page.

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A story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus, written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert.

A story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus, written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert

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Lucky Girl by Mary Rickert is a haunting tale of solitude and the unexpected bonds formed during the festive season.

Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner—all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is—she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner.

When that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they each tell a ghost story. A tale that's seasonally appropriate. However, Ro will come to learn that the horrors hidden in a Christmas tale—or one's past—can never be tamed once unleashed.

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Lucky Girl is praised as a masterful blend of horror subgenres wrapped in a wintry, melancholic tale. CrimeReads highlights its layering of multiple horror styles like unwrapping nested gifts, while Locus commends the novella’s elegantly complex narrative and perfectly distilled dread. Renowned authors such as Laird Barron, Daryl Gregory, and Christopher Golden celebrate it as a beautifully disturbing, ice-cold, and dread-filled Christmas horror story that resonates beyond the season.

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ISBN: 9781250817334

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 109g

Pages: 112

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About the Author

Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert (she/her) worked as a kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. She has published three short story collections: Map of Dreams, Holiday, and You Have Never Been Here. Her first novel, The Memory Garden, was published in 2014, and won the Locus award. Her second novel, The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie was published in 2021. She is the winner of the Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award and has been nominated for the Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award. She currently lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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