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In Margaret T. Canby's "Birdie and His Fairy Friends" (1874), there is a short story titled "The Frost Fairies." In this story, Jack Frost is the king of the Winter Spirits and is described as a kind fellow who wants to help children, whereas a king of a neighboring kingdom, King Winter, is cruel to them. The story tells the origins of how Jack ...
Jack Frost is a 1998 American Christmas dark fantasy drama film directed by Troy Miller and starring Michael Keaton and Kelly Preston. Keaton plays the title character, a father and musician killed in a car accident, only to be brought back to life in the form of a snowman via a magical harmonica.
Jack Frost resembles a young man made of ice, and can create and withstand extremely cold temperatures and generate large amounts of ice. [9]The introduction in his first story implies that he is a mythical creature, a lonely figure existing in the Arctic landscape: "The far north!
The volume closes with a look at Jack as he evades both the Invisibles and the Outer Church in London. [11] Jack remembers his abduction experience from the previous volume, recalling that his alien captors told him that he is the messiah. Jack is approached by Sir Miles, a high-ranking member of the Outer Church, who tries to recruit him.
"The Frost King" (originally titled "Autumn Leaves" [1]) is a short story about King Jack Frost written by Helen Keller, then 11. [2] Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, had mentioned that the autumn leaves were "painted ruby, emerald, gold, crimson, and brown," and Keller, by her own account, imagined fairies doing the work.
The first three books are set between 1981 and November 1982 when Frost was a Detective Sergeant, [5] [6] [7] and Frost at Midnight is set in August 1983, when Frost is a Detective Inspector. [8] The two latest—and so far last—Frost books are by Danny Miller.
Jack Frost is a 1997 American direct-to-video [2] black comedy slasher film written and directed by Michael Cooney.It stars Scott MacDonald and Christopher Allport.. Despite being critically panned, the film has developed a cult following [3] and was followed by a sequel in 2000, Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman.
"The Runaway Shadows, or A Trick of Jack Frost" is a twentieth-century fairy tale, a fantasy short story written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz.The story is one of a small cluster of Baum narratives that involve his fantasy land the Forest of Burzee and its exotic denizens.