If you are looking to chase away those post-Halloween blues, Krampus has arrived just in time to answer your prayers!

If you are looking to chase away those post-Halloween blues, Krampus has arrived just in time to answer your prayers!
Before Krampus injected some needed chills into traditional yuletide proceedings, the original dark spirit of Christmas was Frau Perchta.
Al Ridenour’s new book The Krampus and the Old Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil (Feral House) fully captures the culturally accurate story of Krampus, as well as some of his fore bearers in the dark corners of the winter holiday.