• May include: A vintage-style magazine cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories, The Christmas Signal Over The Desert. It features a desert landscape at night with a bright star, a cabin decorated with lights, a Christmas tree, and a pickup truck.
  • May include: A greeting card featuring a vintage-style magazine cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories. The illustration depicts a desert landscape at night with a bright star, a small cabin with Christmas lights, and the text The Christmas Signal Over The Desert.
  • May include: A book cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories featuring a bright star in a starry night sky over a desert landscape with mesas and cacti. Text includes Star-Born Message Above the Silent Mesa and A Holiday Mystery from the Far Desert Frontier.
  • May include: A rectangular metal sign featuring a desert landscape at night with a snow-covered cabin, a decorated Christmas tree, a vintage pickup truck, and a radio tower. The text MAS SIGNAL is printed in large yellow letters at the bottom.
  • May include: A stack of rectangular greeting cards featuring a vintage comic book cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories: The Christmas Signal Over The Desert, alongside a stack of plain white envelopes. The cover art depicts a desert landscape.
  • May include: A rectangular greeting card featuring a vintage-style magazine cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories, The Christmas Signal Over the Desert. The illustration depicts a desert landscape at night with a bright star, a cabin, and cacti.
  • May include: A white card featuring black cursive text that reads: Whatever the signal means, consider this a friendly reply. Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year from this corner of the universe.
  • May include: A vintage-style magazine cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories, The Christmas Signal Over The Desert. It features a desert landscape at night with a bright star, a cabin decorated with lights, a Christmas tree, and a pickup truck.
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  • May include: A greeting card featuring a vintage-style magazine cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories. The illustration depicts a desert landscape at night with a bright star, a small cabin with Christmas lights, and the text The Christmas Signal Over The Desert.
  • May include: A book cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories featuring a bright star in a starry night sky over a desert landscape with mesas and cacti. Text includes Star-Born Message Above the Silent Mesa and A Holiday Mystery from the Far Desert Frontier.
  • May include: A rectangular metal sign featuring a desert landscape at night with a snow-covered cabin, a decorated Christmas tree, a vintage pickup truck, and a radio tower. The text MAS SIGNAL is printed in large yellow letters at the bottom.
  • May include: A stack of rectangular greeting cards featuring a vintage comic book cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories: The Christmas Signal Over The Desert, alongside a stack of plain white envelopes. The cover art depicts a desert landscape.
  • May include: A rectangular greeting card featuring a vintage-style magazine cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories, The Christmas Signal Over the Desert. The illustration depicts a desert landscape at night with a bright star, a cabin, and cacti.
  • May include: A white card featuring black cursive text that reads: Whatever the signal means, consider this a friendly reply. Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year from this corner of the universe.
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The Christmas Signal Over the Desert — Retro Sci-Fi Christmas Card

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  • Materials: Cardstock, Paper
  • Dimensions: Width: 5 Inches; Length: 7 Inches
  • Made to order

Seller's description

Retro Sci-Fi Christmas Cards, Christmas Signal Over the Desert, Southwestern Pulp Art.

A mysterious golden beacon shines over silent mesas while a remote desert outpost keeps its Christmas lights burning. The Christmas Signal Over the Desert combines Southwestern winter scenery, a radio mast, and cosmic wonder in a fictional mid-century pulp-cover greeting card.
A winding track leads through snow-dusted cactus and rock toward a small wooden building. Its windows glow, a wreath hangs on the door, and a decorated tree stands beside a welcoming lantern. A vintage pickup rests nearby. Even here, Christmas has found a place.
Above the roof, red and green lights mark a slender radio mast. Far overhead, a brilliant golden starburst and luminous rings fill the night. The cover asks who sent the Yuletide beacon through the cosmic darkness—and leaves the answer to the imagination.
This is a peaceful mystery, with the familiar warmth of a Christmas outpost beneath an extraordinary sky. The desert remains quiet. The light suggests a message worth receiving.
Bold cover lettering, sensational teasers, and an intentionally aged border give the artwork the character of a fictional mid-century science-fiction magazine.
From ATOMIC HOLIDAY STORIES — The Pulp Sci-Fi Christmas Collection by Cavern Emporium.
A distinctive greeting for science-fiction readers, Southwestern landscape lovers, astronomy enthusiasts, radio hobbyists, and friends who appreciate a little mystery in their Christmas art. Larger packs suit family mailing lists, bookshops, astronomy groups, radio clubs, and organizations whose members live far apart.

CARD DETAILS
Folded Christmas greeting card
Finished size: 5 inches wide × 7 inches high
Portrait orientation with a left-side fold
Full-color fictional pulp-cover front artwork
270gsm white paper with the confirmed provider finish
Printed interior greeting
Available in packs of 10, 30, and 50
One matching white envelope included per card
Professionally printed to order by the disclosed production partner
Physical printed product delivered by mail
No personalized printing
Your order contains the selected quantity of cards and matching white envelopes. Lamps, books, radios, ornaments, and other display props are not included.
This is a newly produced greeting card with vintage-style artwork. The December issue label, A Cavern Future Publication imprint, and illustrated 25¢ price are part of the fictional cover. No magazine stories are included; the illustrated cover price is not the product price. The worn border is printed imagery, not physical damage.
Artwork created using AI tools guided by original prompts and creative direction from Cavern Emporium.
Printed colors may vary slightly from their appearance on different screens.

We have many Christmas cards for your consideration.

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  • Cost to ship
    FREE to United States, 43215.

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May include: A vintage-style magazine cover titled Atomic Holiday Stories, The Christmas Signal Over The Desert. It features a desert landscape at night with a bright star, a cabin decorated with lights, a Christmas tree, and a pickup truck.

Retro Sci-Fi Christmas Cards, Christmas Signal Over the Desert, Southwestern Pulp Art.

A mysterious golden beacon shines over silent mesas while a remote desert outpost keeps its Christmas lights burning. The Christmas Signal Over the Desert combines Southwestern winter scenery, a radio mast, and cosmic wonder in a fictional mid-century pulp-cover greeting card.
A winding track leads through snow-dusted cactus and rock toward a small wooden building. Its windows glow, a wreath hangs on the door, and a decorated tree stands beside a welcoming lantern. A vintage pickup rests nearby. Even here, Christmas has found a place.
Above the roof, red and green lights mark a slender radio mast. Far overhead, a brilliant golden starburst and luminous rings fill the night. The cover asks who sent the Yuletide beacon through the cosmic darkness—and leaves the answer to the imagination.
This is a peaceful mystery, with the familiar warmth of a Christmas outpost beneath an extraordinary sky. The desert remains quiet. The light suggests a message worth receiving.
Bold cover lettering, sensational teasers, and an intentionally aged border give the artwork the character of a fictional mid-century science-fiction magazine.
From ATOMIC HOLIDAY STORIES — The Pulp Sci-Fi Christmas Collection by Cavern Emporium.
A distinctive greeting for science-fiction readers, Southwestern landscape lovers, astronomy enthusiasts, radio hobbyists, and friends who appreciate a little mystery in their Christmas art. Larger packs suit family mailing lists, bookshops, astronomy groups, radio clubs, and organizations whose members live far apart.

CARD DETAILS
Folded Christmas greeting card
Finished size: 5 inches wide × 7 inches high
Portrait orientation with a left-side fold
Full-color fictional pulp-cover front artwork
270gsm white paper with the confirmed provider finish
Printed interior greeting
Available in packs of 10, 30, and 50
One matching white envelope included per card
Professionally printed to order by the disclosed production partner
Physical printed product delivered by mail
No personalized printing
Your order contains the selected quantity of cards and matching white envelopes. Lamps, books, radios, ornaments, and other display props are not included.
This is a newly produced greeting card with vintage-style artwork. The December issue label, A Cavern Future Publication imprint, and illustrated 25¢ price are part of the fictional cover. No magazine stories are included; the illustrated cover price is not the product price. The worn border is printed imagery, not physical damage.
Artwork created using AI tools guided by original prompts and creative direction from Cavern Emporium.
Printed colors may vary slightly from their appearance on different screens.

We have many Christmas cards for your consideration.

Atomic Holiday Highway https://www.etsy.com/listing/4591900423/atomic-holiday-highway-pulp-sci-fi

The Robot That Saved Christmas https://www.etsy.com/listing/4592885196/the-robot-that-saved-christmas-pulp-sci

Christmas at the Stardust Canteen https://www.etsy.com/listing/4593438068/christmas-at-the-stardust-canteen-retro

CavernEmporium made this item with help from
All Things In Ink, San Francisco, CA
  • Designed by
    CavernEmporium
  • Materials
    Cardstock, paper
  • Width
    5 Inches
  • Length
    7 Inches

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    Nov 7-16
  • Returns and exchanges
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  • Ships from
    Elmwood Park, IL
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  • Cost to ship
    FREE to United States, 43215

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CavernEmporium
Brianna Sherrie
CavernEmporium ·

Chatsworth, California

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