The Fright Before Christmas was a free short story released by Candy Jar Books in 2015.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Corporal Sally Wright
- General Trubshawe
- Corporal Woodley
- Charles Wyvern
- Dolores Wyvern
- Guthrie
- Officer Watkins
- DI Meadows
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- 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.
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Lethbridge-Stewart is engaged to Sally Wright. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son)