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13 Days Before Christmas: A Modern Tale of the Gryla

Over the years Christmas has developed its fair share of terrifying characters. Only recently the world was introduced to the famous Krampus. Now the historical Icelandic legend of the Gryla has emerged. This hideous troll-like creature and her thirteen sons have terrified the people of Iceland for generations. The literature you are holding is an account discovered recently from Reyjkavic-born, Stefan Ganurrson. If Christmas is truly a time of giving then Stefan truly offers everything in this powerful rhetoric of Christmas and Iceland's very own anti-Santa. Welcome to the cold, dark world of the Gryla and remember... if you hear a noise outside late on Christmas Eve, it is not always the jolly old man in red delivering gifts...

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