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  • Published: 22 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781683692058
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $24.99
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Secret Santa




From the New York Times bestselling author of Hope Never Dies, The Office meets The Shining in this horror-comedy about a holiday gift exchange gone wrong, set at a publishing house in the 80s.

The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening horror-comedy set during the horror publishing boom of the ’80s, by New York Times best-selling satirist Andrew Shaffer.

Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub. It’s the ’80s, after all, and horror is the hottest genre.

But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of her co-workers' mean-spirited pranks. The hazing reaches its peak during the company’s annual Secret Santa gift exchange, when Lussi receives a demonic-looking object that she recognizes but doesn't understand. Suddenly, her coworkers begin falling victim to a series of horrific accidents akin to a George Romero movie, and Lussi suspects that her gift is involved. With the help of her former author, the flamboyant Fabien Nightingale, Lussi must track down her anonymous Secret Santa and figure out the true meaning of the cursed object in her possession before it destroys the company—and her soul.

  • Published: 22 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781683692058
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Andrew Shaffer

Andrew Shaffer is the author of humorous nonfiction and fiction, including Literary Rogues, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, and, under the pen name "Fanny Merkin," Fifty Shames of Earl Grey. His writing has been published in such diverse places as Mental Floss, Maxim, and The Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on FOX News, CBS, and NPR, and his irreverent greeting cards have been featured on The Colbert Report.

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