$3.99 (eBook) - $10 (paperback) • $20 (library hardcover) • 68 pp.
PB ISBN (2nd ed.): 978-1949769258
Library HC: 978-1949769081
PB ISBN (1st ed., out of print): 978-1983777271
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like F*ck This
8th Circle Press (1st ed. 2014, 2nd ed. 2021)
“If you’re looking for something tart to cut the holiday sweetness, Shaffer offers a naughty little treat.” — The Gazette
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like F*ck This is an off-beat collection of Christmas essays, poems, short stories, and cartoons by New York Times bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer.
Previously published as The Shelf on the Elf, this newly-expanded holiday cult classic has it all: holiday pickles, talking lambs, and knife-wielding maniacs.
Table of Contents:
The True Meaning of Christmas (cartoon)
The Christmas Snitch (poem)
Regret (poem)
Law & Order: A Very Special Christmas Episode (short story)
Do You Hear What I Hear? (poem)
The World Is Going to Shit (cartoon)
Hiding the Holiday Pickle (essay)
An Earl Grey Christmas (short story)
Some Good News and Bad News About Santa (poem)
Hunting Season (essay)
A Terrible Joke Only '90s Kids Will Get (cartoon)
The Murders Across the Street from the Rue Whorehouse: A Christmas Story (short story, also available in the collection The Telltale Hardon and Other Perversions)
Some Thoughts for a Bleak Midwinter Night (poem)