University Book Store presents Nick DiMartino reading Christmas Ghost Story

4326 University Way Northeast,Seattle WA 98105

27 November, 2022

Description

That Christmas Eve, when a snowstorm lays siege to Seattle, there will be disappearances, unseen terrors, and unexpected encounters in small, tight places. The Rossi family is about to learn the meaning of Christmas. Gina opened her eyes. She was standing in the remains of the vegetable garden, in the middle of the night. She was alone in her nightgown, clutching a shovel. She had been digging. Was she losing her mind? Gina became very afraid that she might be… Gina Rossi has shocked her Seattle family by buying the old Rossi house on Beacon Hill. Now she shocks them even more by inviting them to an old-fashioned family dinner on Christmas Eve. But the Rossis won’t be alone that night. Secrets are buried in her great-grandmother’s house that Grandpa never told anyone. Secrets that are slowly changing Gina. The sound of running footsteps. The sound of a child crying. And a narrow staircase at the end of a large closet upstairs—a staircase that leads to a sealed-off wall. Christmas Ghost Story is the literary descendant of the traditional British ghost stories that proliferated in Victorian times in special bulky Christmas issues of popular magazines packed with chilling supernatural thrillers by the literary names of the day. This is a revival of that Victorian tradition set in the Pacific Northwest of the 1990s. Nick DiMartino is a native of Seattle, Washington. He's the author of three supernatural thrillers set in Seattle, as well as seventeen novels and memoirs published through University Book Store Press. He was the book-buyer at University Book Store at the HUB branch on campus from 1970 until Covid-19. He has had over twenty plays in full-run productions across the United States, including Dracula, Pinocchio and The Snow Queen at Seattle Children's Theater, Frankenstein at the Honolulu Theater for Youth, Babes in Toyland at the Village Theater in Issaquah, Raven for the Red Earth Performing Arts Company, The Sampo for the Finlandia Foundation, and three musicals for the Bellevue Children's Theater