Ring the Bells: (The Stranger Times 5) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781804993378)

'Fiendishly clever and monstrously funny, C. K. McDonnell's latest will steal your soul and eat your brain. In the nicest possible way, of course.' -- Tom Holt, author of The Portable Door and The Eight Reindeers of Christmas

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

For most people, that means celebration, relaxation, and a little festive excess. But not for the staff of The Stranger Times.

A book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn't unprecedented--but it is certainly noteworthy. It soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary book-club-triple-murder. A librarian has been possessed by a chaotic entity that has broken through from another dimension, hellbent on vengeance. He's made a list--and unlike Santa, he isn't checking it twice. In fact, the whole of humanity is on it.

Who would summon such a terrifying force? And more importantly, how can anyone send it back?

As if that weren't enough, a shocking revelation about one member of The Stranger Times team brings family together--but not in a way that's ever going to make it into a Hallmark movie.

Featuring demonically possessed Santas, bloodthirsty books, and the ghost of a legendary nightclub, Ring the Bells is a gloriously chaotic festive adventure in which Christmas may well end in apocalypse.

The fifth installment in the award-winning, critically acclaimed, and laugh-out-loud funny The Stranger Times series, Ring the Bells delivers another irresistible blend of horror, fantasy, mystery, and razor-sharp comedy.

Praise for Relight My Fire

"McDonnell's world is transgressively hilarious, grimly banal and beguilingly warm. Of course there's a story that the intrepid journalists of The Stranger Times have to tease out--grave-robbing, cryogenics, a very angry witch, and a washed-up indie legend looking for a lost album--but the real joy lies in the pitfalls and pratfalls of getting there."
-- Daily Mail

"An absolute riot of a read."
-- Daily Express

"Laugh-out-loud funny and full of colorful characters."
-- Daily Mirror

"It's no secret that here at SciFi Towers we're massive fans of the Stranger Times series by C. K. McDonnell."
-- SciFiNow

"I loved the dry and embedded humor of this book--it's the stuff of life... the whole thing is great fun."
-- SFCrowsnest

"Relight My Fire is perhaps the best since the original."*
-- Starburst