Christmas Elf From Hell

It was only two dollars.On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Dana Holloway finds a punch bowl and a Christmas scout elf at a dead woman's estate sale in Marlow, Minnesota. The elf has a cracked porcelain face, watery glass eyes, and a paper tag on his wrist that reads Pip. He was found in a cedar box in the attic, nailed shut and ringed with salt.Her youngest daughter, Maddie, falls in love with him on sight.Every morning in December, Pip moves, just like a scout elf is supposed to. And every morning he leaves a note in beautiful, old-fashioned cursive, judging one of the Holloway children naughty or nice. Owen fibbed about brushing his teeth, so Owen will lose something. Maddie cried at bedtime, so Maddie will be tucked in under something heavy. Lily rolled her eyes, so Lily's eyes will close.Whatever Pip writes comes true.The family dog vanishes from a fenced yard. A truck rolls into a ditch. The elf is crushed at the county dump and burned on a backyard grate, and every morning he's back on the mantel, smiling. And the notes are written in the handwriting of the woman who owned him, a woman whose seven-year-old son disappeared from a locked house on Christmas Eve, 1968.Now Christmas Eve is coming again. Pip has chosen the child who loves him best. And the only one who can stop him is an eleven-year-old girl with a broken arm, a black composition book, and the best penmanship in Marlow Elementary.Christmas Elf from Hell is a chilling holiday horror novel about a family, a doll, and a tradition that should never have been opened.