Description
Issue 38 (November 2012–January 2013) is our expanded holiday issue, and it carries “Dear Santa,” the last short story Ray Bradbury wrote. A teenage boy, a little old for this, waits at the very back of the line to see a department-store Santa. Why he’s there only comes out after a cryptic exchange with the man in the suit.
Jeffery Deaver opens the issue with a novelette, “The Sequel,” and Lyndsay Faye has another Sherlock Holmes case, “The Adventure of the Lightless Maiden.”
In this issue
- “The Sequel” by Jeffery Deaver (novelette)
- “The Adventure of the Lightless Maiden” by Lyndsay Faye (Sherlock Holmes)
- “Midwinter Interlude” by Alexander McCall Smith
- “Dear Santa” by Ray Bradbury
- “A People Person” by Michael Koryta
- Interview with Nelson DeMille
- The 2011 Strand Critics Award winners
- Reviews
80 pages, cover art by Aaron Memmott. Mulholland Books later reissued “Dear Santa” on its own as an ebook; this is the issue where it first ran.
Lonny Schafer –
Not one of Bradbury’s best stories.