A enjoyable Christmastime tale of a demon who hasn’t been on Earth since Victorian times, but despite the title, there are no Dickensian guides and no time travel.
Michael Main
This was it; this was the summoning Mastema had been waiting for.

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  1. “A Demon’s Christmas Carol” by Jennie Goloboy, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2021.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Jennie Goloboy

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  1. Length Estimate—6900 words.