#Krampus: the Yule lord

[godzilla-reads]

You can never have too much Brom 💀

[judgeitbyitscover]

Child Thief (2009)

Krampus: The Yule Lord (2012)

Lost Gods (2016)

Slewfoot (2021)

Evil in Me (2024)

Authored and Illustrated by Brom

[cozychamomilechaos]

yall ever love a book but its literally the most niche thing ever

[con-alas-de-angeles]

Brom, Krampus the Yule Lord

[dinosaurgiantpenny]

[samhainia]

Tis the season!!! Read Krampus the Yule Lord By Gerald Brom! Sinfully beautiful, brilliant storytelling and one of my favorite artists alive today! This is your new Christmas tradition!

[dazedcraze]

so my brother lent me a new book over the holiday week...

Not even done reading it and I wanted to draw my fave. Krampus the Yule Lord, by Brom, it's called.

[nevinslibrary]

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

I will admit that I almost decided not to read this based on the cover. But, I powered through every time I had to put it down and then pick it back up again, and I’m glad I did. Jesse finds a magical bag that belongs to Krampus, Lord of Yule (and Saint Nick’s enemy). Suddenly he finds himself stuck between the two who are stuck in a war that spans the ages. Whoops.

The story was darkly awesome, so, I’m glad that I didn’t let the cover deter me. It was truly amazing.

You may like this book If you Liked: The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore, The Immortal Nicholas by Glenn Beck, or Hounded by Kevin Hearne

Krampus by Brom

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Krampus: the Yule Lord by Brom

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KRAMPUS HC • cover art • Brom [Oct 2015]

One Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the reindeer leap skyward taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. Moments later, a large sack plummets earthward, a magical sack that will thrust the down-on-his luck singer into the clutches of the terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus. But the lines between good and evil become blurred as Jesse’s new master reveals many dark secrets about the cherry-cheeked Santa Claus, and how half a millennium ago, the jolly old saint imprisoned Krampus and usurped his magic.

Now Santa’s time is running short, for the Yule Lord is determined to have his retribution and reclaim Yuletide. If Jesse can survive this ancient feud, he might have the chance to redeem himself to his family, to save his own broken dreams...and help bring the magic of Yule to the impoverished folk of Boone County.

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Santa Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murderer, a liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming for your head.... I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide.... —from Krampus

[godzilla-reads]

Three Books I’m Hoping to Read in December 2024

• Krampus the Yule Lord by Gerald Brom

• Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

[harrowclare]

harrowclare's 2024 reading list

here is the long, long list of my 2024 reads with ratings & dates. because of tumblr's limit on links, i cannot direct to individual reviews. if you would like to view my reviews on their respective sites, you can find them on thestorygraph & goodreads.

dates are listed as month, day. manga volumes that are binged will be grouped so that this list isn't a million miles long, with the range of ratings for the volumes in the stack. a few of these titles were started in 2023, lol whoops! those are the only dates with a year stamp.

wanna read along or chat with me about books? i'm super active on fable.

reading challenges: horror bingo reaading challenge (2024-2025)

reading goal progress: 142/100

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Fever House by Keith Rosson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 12.27—12.31 - fiction

The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 11.23—12.27 - fiction

Krampus: The Yule Lord 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 12.13—12.26 - fiction

Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 12.01—12.11 - fiction

Fluids by May Leitz 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 12.14—12.17 - fiction

Doppleganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 12.01—12.11 - non-fiction

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.28—11.30 - fiction

Confessions by Kanae Minato 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 11.27—11.28 - fiction

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 11.26—11.27 - fiction

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 11.26—11.26 - fiction

Graveyard Shift by M.L Rio 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 11.25—11.26 - fiction

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.16—11.25 - fiction

Exquisit Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.11—11.20 - fiction

Rouge by Mona Awad 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.01—11.15 - fiction

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 11.01—11.10 - fiction

Brat by Gabriel Smith 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.06—11.09 - fiction

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.31—11.04 - fiction

Hallowpeen by Holly Wilde 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.31—10.31 - fiction

Phantasma by Kaylie Smith 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.11—10.31 - fiction

Taking Her Turn by Lisa Shea 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 10.31—10.31 - fiction

The Watchers by A.M. Shine 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 10.26—10.30 - fiction

The Vegetarian by Han Kang 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 10.26—10.27 - fiction

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 10.24—10.25 - fiction

Feed by Mira Grant 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.15—10.24 - fiction

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.21—10.22 - fiction

The Fall of the House of Usher 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 10.21—10.21 - fiction

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.13—10.14 - fiction

Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.11—10.13 - fiction

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.09—10.12 - fiction

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.04—10.11 - fiction

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.09—10.10 - fiction

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.03—10.09 - fiction

Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 08.25—10.09 - fiction originally i listened to the audiobook, stopping at 57% & restarting the hardcover book from the beginning.

Walking Practice by Dolki Min 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.04—10.05 - fiction

Stormflower by Keegan Kozinski & Tristen Kozinski (eARC) 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 07.29—10.02 - fiction

Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 09.27—10.01 - fiction

The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 09.25—09.29 - fiction

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 09.23—09.24 - fiction

Volume Ø: Issue 3 by multiple authors 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.21—09/22 - fiction

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.12—09. 21 - fiction

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 09.04—09.12 - fiction

The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.02—09.12 - fiction

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.04—09.05 - fiction

Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.30—08.31 - fiction

The Haar by David Sodergren 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 08.25—08.29 - fiction

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑- 08.26—08.27 - fiction

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.19—08.25 - fiction i actually gave this a 3.75 on thestorygraph, which may seem obnoxious, but it felt right idk. sometimes rating shit 1-5 feels arbitrary and hard.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.30—08.24 - fiction

Killing Stalking Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Koogi 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 08.24—08.24 - webtoon

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 03.16.23—08.22 - fiction

Schappi by Anna Haifisch 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 08.20—08.20 - graphic novel

You Will Own Nothing And You Will Be Happy #1 by Simon Hanslemann 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.20—08.20 - graphic novel, reread

Werewolf Jones and Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual by Simon Hanselmann & Simon Pettinger 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 08.20—08.20 - graphic novel

Something Akin to Revulsion by Judith Sonnet 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 - 08.19—08.20 - fiction

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.16—08.18 - fiction

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 08.09—08.16 - fiction

The Troop by Nick Cutter 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 08.12—08.14 - fiction

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.01—08.12 - fiction

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 07.27—08.09 - fiction

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.30—08.06 - fiction

The Ruins by Scott Smith 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 08.01—08.05 - fiction

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 07.24—07.30 - fiction at the time of reading and reviewing this i was unaware of the controversies surrounding the author (uncredited use of the likeness of a video game and possible Zionism.) i don't want to change my rating & review because the book did have a profound impact on me, but i also do not believe in separating art from the artist, so i will not be purchasing the book or reading more from the author.

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.14—07.29 - fiction

Playground by Aron Beauregard 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑 - 07.23—07.28 - fiction

Middle of the Night by Riley Sager 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑- 07.17—07.27 - fiction

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑- 07.15—07.24 - fiction

The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑- 07.11—07.23 - fiction

The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑- 07.20—07.22 - manga

The Summer Hikaru Died Vol. 1 by Mokumokuren 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.19—07.20 - manga

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 07.11—07.16 - fiction

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 07.10—07.13 - fiction

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 07.09—07.10 - fiction

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.08—07.09 - fiction

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.03—07.08 - fiction

Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕- 07.05—07.05 - graphic novel

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 06.27—07.03 - fiction

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 06.26—06.26 - fiction

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 06.23—06.25 - fiction

Victim by Andrew Boryga 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 06.14—06.17 - fiction

A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 - 04.19—06.14 - fiction

A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 06.06—06.13 - fiction

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑 - 06.01—06.06 - fiction

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 05.22—05.31 - fiction

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 05.26—05.27 - non-fiction

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 05.19—05.21 - fiction

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 05.10—05.19 - fiction

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 05.18—05.19 - fiction

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 05.14—05.18 - fiction

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 05.10—05.13 - fiction

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 05.01—05.03 - fiction review: thestorygraph, goodreads

The Measure by Nikki Erlick 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 04.21—04.23 - fiction

Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 1 - Vol. 8 by Sui Ishida 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 04.22—05.08 - manga

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 04.18—04.21 - fiction

Know My Name by Chanel Miller 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 04.05—04.18 - non-fiction

Chainsaw Man Vol. 1 - Vol. 11 by Tatsuki Fujimoto 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 04.16—04.22 - manga

Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 5 - Vol. 26 by Gege Akutami 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 12.23.23—04.16 - manga

Tampa by Alissa Nutting 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 04.02—04.03 - fiction

Circe by Madeline Miller 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 03.29—04.01 - fiction

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 03.25—03.28 - fiction

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 03.23—03.25 - fiction

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 02.02—03.20 - fiction

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vyong 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 03.06—03.06- poetry

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 02.01—02.01- fiction

Y/N by Esther Yi | fiction 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 01.31—02.01 - fiction

my tiny DNF pile

Falling by T.J Newman stopped at 6% - 10.07 - fiction

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois stopped at 32% - 09.07 - fiction

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry stopped at 24% - 05.03 - non-fiction

new words

(tbh i know many of these verbally, but didn't know when when i read them - or vice versa depending on whether i was reading with my eyes or ears.)

acrimony, alacrity, allay, ameliorate, aplomb, assiduously, avarice, avulsed, conviviality, detritus, eddy, garrulous, germane, gloaming, gunwale, inexorable, itinerant, lassitude, lugubrious, moribund, palliative, palimpsest, pernicious, pugnacious, sententiously, scrim, sepulchral, shale, splume, stalward, surreptitious, rime, verisimilitude

[ivy-ghost]

I just got through reading " krampus the yule lord" by Brom. And needless to say, I fell in love with krampus' character. So here's my take on him. Will probably draw a lot more of him, tis the season. ✨️🎄

[cozychamomilechaos]

Sometimes I hate Ao3 bc I noticed that there are 6 fics for Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom they're all smut

write what you want but like goddamn

also only one of them was Krampus/Jesse

[thenightling]

Spooky Christmas characters from around the world

Some of these are folkloric or in the public domain and some of these are under copyright but I figured it was worthwhile to list all of them or at least all the ones I could remember off the top of my head.

Krampus = Icelandic. Demon son of Hela, Goddess of the Dead. Grandson of Loki, The God of Mischief. Krampus was captured by Saint Nicholas but escapes once a year to frighten naughty children and kidnap truly evil children. No one knows what he does with these evil children but they may become Santa's elves.

The Yule Cat = Also Icelandic. The story goes that the Yule Cat is a giant cat that will gobble up anyone who did not receive and wear new clothes at Christmas.

Befana The Christmas Witch = Italian. Not really scary unless you're just scared of witches. Like most witches she rides a broom but in this story she was a friend of the three magi who went to see baby Jesus. And every year on Epiphany eve she travels the world giving good children presents, and leaving coal for naughty children. She also will fill stockings hung by the chimney and will eat cookies and milk left out for her, just like Santa.

Jack Skellington = American. Created by Tim Burton for his short story / poem that was turned into a film, Jack is the King of Halloween who tried to do Christmas his own spooky way with the help of his subjects, the ghouls and ghosts of Halloweentown.

The Grinch = American. A green creature that lives in a cave overlooking Whoville. He tried to steal away Christmas from the Whos before having a change of heart in realizing that Christmas is about love and kindness, and not materialism. The Grinch has had three movies, not including his Halloween special or his confrontation with The Cat in the Hat. That would make it five.

Dracula = UK / American / honorable mention to Romania for the historic figure. The BBC released a version of Dracula on Christmas Day in 2006. There is also a children's book and animated movie called Dear Dracula (Currently on Tubi) where a little boy writes to Dracula instead of Santa Claus when he really wants a cool Dracula action figure. There is also a comic book Santa vs. Dracula. He's also one of the main characters who appear in the Bobby Boris Pickett song "Monster's holiday" where the characters of The Monster Mash do Christmas.

Count Orlock = Originally German. A new version of Nosferatu opens on Christmas Day.

Mari Lwyd = Welish. I keep wanting to pronounce this one Mary Lord. I know that's not correct but oh, well. Mari Lwyd is a skeletal ghost horse that shows up at your door rhyming and you have to rhyme back. This goes on until one of you runs out of rhymes. If the skeletal horse wins you have to let the apparition raid your pantry for sweets and booze. (Usually this is done as a form of carolling and it's your neighbors in a costume with a horse-skull prop).

The Ghost of Jacob Marley = English. Created by Charles Dickens, Jacob Marley is the first spirit Scrooge encounters in A Christmas Carol. He is Scrooge's old business partner now condemned to wander the Earth dragging heavy chains. He is who many think of when they hear the song "Most Wonderful time of the year" and get to "There'll be scary ghost stories" in the lyrics.

Edward Scissorhands = American. Created by Tim Burton. (Surprise, surprise.) Edward is a Frankenstein-like creation who has scissors instead of hands. His story is a tragic one about love and the cruelty and mistrust people have toward those who are different. His is a fable about where the first Christmas snow came from.

Jack Frost = Russian. Also known as Father Frost, Jack Frost has a Cinderella-like fairy tale attached to him where he freezes to death the wicked Stepmother and stepsister and rewards the Cinderella-type character for appreciating the beauty of winter even when the cold was on the verge of killing her. Rise of the Guardians introduced a new version of Jack Frost who was actually the ghost of a boy who died rescuing his sister and became the personification of childhood fun. There is also a few Rankin Bass Holiday specials that feature him. One where he falls in love with a human woman and one where he tries to destroy (and later befriends) Frosty the Snow Man. He also appears in the Santa Clause franchise.

The Winter Warlock = American. Antagonist from Santa Claus is coming to town. He turns good.

Oogie Boogie = Version of the Boogie Man (European) he first appears in Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas where he and his three henchmen, Lock, Shock, and Barrel terrorize Santa Claus.

The Asset AKA Charlie = (South American) The aquatic creature (revealed to be a river God) from The Shape of Water since that movie was released in December of 2017.

Death AKA The Grim Reaper = (UK) Hogfather (Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett). Loosely it's the same idea as Nightmare before Christmas only it's Death incarnate who has to do Hogswatch (Christmas) one year in Discworld.

Belasco = The ghost from the novel Hell House by Richard Matheson, which was adapted into the movie Legend of Hell House. The story was set at Christmas.

There are many more but these are the ones I thought of.

[zootownplush]

Morning!

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Can’t believe Yule is right around the corner! So exciting. When I finish decorating I’ll definitely show my grotto so can see inside. It looks very festive currently but still some things that need to be done.

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I’m also gonna be reading a book called Krampus; The Yule Lord by Brom. Something worth reading to fit the holiday.

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Took Spooky Latte, Nettle and Gerti out to the fresh snow. We are expecting more soon. I hope we get dumped on! Haven’t had a good winter in years.

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I think I’ll spend part of the day taking photos cause I wanna do the stories. Sorry for slacking on that.

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What else do you all wanna see on here? Or would you like to ask questions? I wanna make this page fun and cute!

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