“Oh my god, a troll. I think it knows you’re helping me.”

35. Lucky Girl – M. Rickert

A short novella for Christmas Krampus, essentially warning of the types of company available in Madison over the Christmas holiday. Ro meets several others in a hole in the wall diner and they have one Christmas together impromptu and then plan to do so the next year as well. But, they don’t really know each other and that becomes more of a problem when they tell Christmas ghost stories and the rich one talks about his family’s Krampus chapel and the apparently terrible way in which they fire staff. He’s not available the next year, but then out of the blue invites everyone to his estate years later for a reprise and it gets weird and creepy and then even more involved in Ro’s past and weird and creepy.

I didn’t like this as much as I wanted to, in some respects I think it would have been better as a Christmas film so that you can see the characters because there’s not much space to get much from them. Also, Krampus is more of a suggestion and it connects him more directly to Christmas Day and not Krampusnacht, which I would have liked better. He has his own day.

 

Finny, inspirer of Fimpus, says try harder. He does, especially on Krampusnacht.

 

It’s his day. Gruss vom Fimpus.