The Christmas Season of earlier times was not the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas Day that Americans experience today. Surely, Christmas in the distant past must have been different. But how different? The Christmases of long, long ago were a merry mess of odd superstitions, dangerous games, overindulgences, and playful misrule that lasted from Christmas Day until Epiphany twelve days later. 

Beware: You'll encounter ghosts, monsters, concealed identities, ritual animal disguise, gunfire, and lots of alcohol. Original illustrations by Dorothy Siemens, with a foreword by Gerry Bowler, PhD.

Hardcover, 170 pages. 2025.