The Fright Before Christmas (short story)

The Fright Before Christmas
Main character(s):	Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
Featuring:	Corporal Sally Wright
Main enemy:	Alien sphere
Main setting:	London, 24 December 1969
Key crew
Publisher:	Candy Jar Books
Editor:	Andy Frankham-Allen, Shaun Russell
Writer:	Tom Dexter
Cover by:	Shaun Russell, Adrian Salmon, Nathan Hudson
Designer:	Simon Williams
Release details
Release date:	23 December 2015
Reprinted in:	[[reprint::The HAVOC Files, The XMAS Files|'The HAVOC Files, The XM
Format:	Online book
Lethbridge-Stewart short stories
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The Fright Before Christmas was a free short story released by Candy Jar Books in 2015.

Summary

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Characters

• Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Corporal Sally Wright
• General Trubshawe
• Corporal Woodley
• Charles Wyvern
• Dolores Wyvern
• Guthrie
• Officer Watkins
• DI Meadows

References

• Lethbridge-Stewart dresses up in a Father Christmas costume from Hamleys.
• Canapés, champagne, and mince pies are served at the party at The Dorchester.
• Woodley is stationed at the Lovell Telescope, part of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories.
• Charles and Dolores are going to Harrods in Knightsbridge.
• Two bodies are found near Marble Arch.
• Guthrie sells roasted chestnuts.
• Sally gets Alistair a painting kit of military figures from the Scots Guards who fought in the Peninsular War in 1809.
• A group of carolers sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
• Lethbridge-Stewart speculates the alien sphere comes from the USSR or Korea.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Lethbridge-Stewart is engaged to Sally Wright. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)

External links

• The Fright Before Christmas online