The Fright Before Christmas (short story)

{{Infobox Story |image = The Fright Before Christmas (short story).jpg |series = Lethbridge-Stewart short stories |number = |main character = Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart |featuring = Corporal Sally Wright |enemy = Alien sphere |setting = London, 24 December 1969 |writer = Tom Dexter |cover = Shaun Russell, Adrian Salmon, Nathan Hudson |editor = Andy Frankham-Allen, Shaun Russell |designer = Simon Williams |publisher = Candy Jar Books |release date = 23 December 2015 |reprint =The HAVOC Files (anthology)|The HAVOC Files]], [[The XMAS Files (anthology)|The XMAS Files |format = Online book |isbn = |prev= The Dogs of War (LS short story)|The Dogs of War |next= In His Kiss (short story) |series2 =The XMAS Files |prev2=The Feast of Evans (short story) |next2=Home for Christmas (short story) }} 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

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Continuity

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

External links

• The Fright Before Christmas online