Elves, Bullets, and a Hi-Jacked Holiday!

THE SANTA THING by Robert Freese (2009 StoneGarden.net Publishing / 56 pp. / cb)
Gun-toting mercenary Franklin is called to Santa's castle when his elves report the Big Guy has been acting strange. Before you can say the third HO!, we're bombarded with zombie elves, alien parasites, mutant reindeer, and arguably the most demented Santa Claus this side of sanity. Freese's brief tale doesn't waste any time bringing the fun; it's a gore-filled, monster-infested holiday horrorshow you won't be...