Krampus: The Devil of Christmas by Monte Beauchamp

Published: October 15, 2010
Publisher: Last Gasp
Author: Website
Info: Goodreads

In the early Christmas traditions of Europe, the Krampus was St. Nicholas' dark servant–a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps! Whereas St. Nicholas would reward children who'd been good all year, those that had behaved badly were visited by the Krampus. (goodreads.com)

This is a fun, colorful coffee table Christmas book that briefly goes into the history of Krampus and gives you dozens of amazing Victorian-era postcards, all featuring the long-tongued devil of Christmas. Some of those postcards are hilariously salacious and put monster-lover into a whole new category. The styles of postcards are going to be comfortably familiar to anyone who’s dived down that rabbit hole of Victorian era anything. It’s just some of them were a little shocking how much some of those drawn women…welcomed Krampus, shall we say. Although it should come as no surprise considering what he, um, brings to the table, shall we say.

There’s really nothing else to review with this book. It cheered me up after a string of lackluster Christmas cozies. While not cozy itself, it definitely warmed me on the inside and I look forward to pulling it out every year from here on out and using it as a unique conversation starter. 😁

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