“Saw Dickens do a reading once. My God, that man’s voice does things to me.”

– Holly Trinity

Harvey Duckman Presents’ 2019 Christmas Special has been re-released just in time for the holidays, now folded into the series’ main range as Harvey Duckman Presents Volume 12. (Days of Christmas, that is…)

Among the fantastic festive tales of renegade fairies, festive dream worlds, nightmarish Santas and why elf on a shelf is just plain dystopian is my first contribution to the Harvey series, The Carol of the Bells. It’s also the first print appearance of Holly and Mira, who investigate the mystery of York Minster’s ghostly monk. Very happy to see this collection getting a new push.

Lurking inside are stories by Thomas Gregory, Andy Hill, Peter James Martin, Craig Hallam, Kate Baucherel, Cheryllynn Dyess, Marios Eracleous, Zack Brooks, Ben McQueeney, Maggie Kraus, Gerald Wiley, Lynne Lumsden Green, Mark Hayes…