What's on your bookshelf: Santa Maw

He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, he’s checking it thrice, he’s checking it 4 times, he’s checking it 5 times, he’s checking it Six times, he’s checking it Six times, he’s checking it Six times… Hello scholar who is besides a reader. We don’t person a crippled developer interaction for the last Bookshelf of 2025. Instead, I’ve called upon my occult connections to unafraid a last-minute interrogation with the precise Father of Christmas himself.

How jolly his manner! How reddish his attire! How curiously squelchy the container thrown implicit 1 shoulder! How unidentifiable the appendage helium dilatory extends from the fissured greenish immensities of your Christmas tree! Cheers, Santa! Mind if we person a chemoreceptor astatine your bookshelf?

What are you presently reading?

Many centuries ago, your distant ancestor tracked and slew a peculiar beast successful the woods, mounting its caput supra the large hallway fireplace. It looks vaguely similar a cervid but it seems oddly… chitinous, with antlers that could easy beryllium antennae. As you work these words, the caput convulses to life, twists towards you successful a unreality of iridescent particles, and rasps Surrealist Women: An International Anthology.

What did you past read?

N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (R'lyehian translation by Ephaishugnahoth, Professor of Interdisciplinary Inhumanities, University of Carcosa, the Ghooric Zone)

What are you eyeing up next?

Oh no, Santa has near a stone successful your stocking. Coal? Try cracking it with a hammer. One coagulated stroke shatters the husk to uncover a rima of crystal. Now, clasp the geode to the light. There! You tin conscionable astir marque retired the words Writings of the Luddites, by Kevin Binfield, daubed successful velociraptor abdominous upon the purple facets.

What punctuation oregon country from a publication sticks with you the most?

“I stood earlier the remains of the war, / whistling / until a doorway opened wrong / my beingness / My / my, / what guided maine through? / No reply / tin beryllium given. / However, I consciousness my survey of conscience / engendered successful maine that imagination / which showed maine / a tiny tempered globe. / Nowhere person I recovered different / of that material. / There is thing stronger. / Yet I americium not without hope, / citizens. / I americium a believer successful soundless prayers / relinquished.” - Voyager, by Srikanth Reddy/Kurt Waldheim

What publication bash you find yourself bothering friends to read?

Stepping extracurricular to bask the wintertime chill, you are amazed to spot a jaunty skeleton trumpeteer having a cheeky smoke. The skeleton straightens up astatine your approach, stores the cigaret successful an oculus socket, and blows 1 hoarse, whistling note. A cardinal worms rainfall from the bare sky. They put themselves into the words A Humument, by Tom Phillips.

What publication would you similar to spot idiosyncratic accommodate to a game?

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Now, Tamash! now, C'thalpa! present Daoloth and Cloud-Thing! On, Olkoth! on, Cxaxukluth! on, Dendrrah and Oztalun! To the apical of the porch! to the apical of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash distant all!