Secret Santa
Author: Andrew Shaffer
Category: Humorous
Published: 2020
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Read OnlineThe Office meets Stephen King in this witty and spine-tingling horror-comedy, dressed up with holiday tinsel and set during the horror publishing boom of the '80s, by New York Times best-selling author 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 in the industry.But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of mean-spirited pranks by her coworkers, who clearly don't want her there. The hazing reaches its peak during the company's annual Secret Santa gift exchange, when Lussi receives a strange gift that she recognizes but doesn't understand. Suddenly, her coworkers begin falling victim to a series of...