The Fright Before 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
== Worldbuilding ==
* 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)
Category:2015 short stories
Category:The HAVOC Files short stories
Category:Web-based short stories
Category:The XMAS Files short stories
Category:Stories set in London
Category:Stories set in 1969