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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill6/26/2023 Like Nosferatu, geddit? Sheesh, what uninspired “cryptic” wordplay. I didn’t know it when I picked it up but apparently The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland is a sequel/prequel (as in it was published after but the story is set before) to Joe Hill’s prose novel NOS4A2. If you wish to see more of my most recent book and movie reviews, visit Don’t stop for clothes, money, or the family pet just run like the devil is at your heels.because he is. showing up with that car and that license plate. You know how there are those signs up in towns that proclaim a sister city In Russia, or China, or Thailand? Well if Christmasland is the sister city to Disneyland than Disneyland is in Heaven and Christmasland is in Hell. Manx induces the child to step into the Wraith and he spirits them away to Christmasland. In his case, that generally means he is taken to an abused child who needs to be separated from their parents. Manx drives a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith that is actually a key that takes him through a portal to the place he needs to be. Somehow it is so much more stomach churning to think that there were two other Manx’s before this one. To entice me even further he tells the backstory of the diabolic, Christmasland caretaker, Charles Manx III. He trapped me like a fly in a Brown Recluse Spider web with this one because Wraith is actually a prequel to his outstanding novel NOS4A2. I wouldn’t say I’ve been intentionally ignoring Joe Hill’s graphic novels, have been.
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