With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland”. I've long adored Joe Hill's short fiction. Indeed ….. Trains turn into giant centipedes, citizens must cross busy roads by jumping across the tops of moving cars, and vehicles levitate over the city, shooting electricity at the people below. It's up to Jimmy Toledo, Chuck E. Cheese … …

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