It's the 40th anniversary of "The Year Without a Santa Claus," so for this new edition of Salon's two-sentence fiction series, we asked our acclaimed novelists to include Heat-Miser and Cold-Miser.

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty (2) But McGinley's book had just the most basic story — about Santa wanting a year off and the children of the world rallying around ...

Santa Claus and the mischievous brothers Heat Miser and Snow Miser are the targets of yuletide treachery when the North Wind tries to take Santa's place.

Monday is the start of the meteorological winter. The real winter. Not the calendar one. The worst months: December, January, February. Last year, they were about the worst ever. Fifty inches of snow, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty (2) Heat Miser in 'The Year Without a Santa Claus' (right); Snow ...

Heat Miser and Snow Miser - the breakout stars of the 1974 stop-motion cartoon The Year Without a Santa Clau s - finally have their own special. Unfortunately, the best part about it is a reprise of ...