Comprehensive List of Christmas Horror(Books A-Z)

Author:

J.G. Faherty

Synopsis:

A collection of frighteningly fun holiday themed horror stories for children and adults.

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

Christmas is a time for love and peace and.... oh, bollocks to that! Bah Humbug and all that! Give me Halloween over Christmas any time! Think of me as The Grinch! Think of me as Scrooge! Think of me as the miserable git who won't be buying you a present this year because... Well.... You don't deserve one and I am tighter than a duck's arse! And - as for this book - think of this as short stories based around Christmas in typical Matt Shaw style. An 'up yours' to the festive period containing dark tales of horror and twists that you don't see coming no matter how many Shaw books you have read.

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

Despite having taken the children and leaving him - his wife was coming over, with the kids, for Christmas Day. Not because she wanted to but, rather, a vague attempt of keeping things 'normal' for the children. What she doesn't know, though, is that her new boyfriend is there too..... in pieces. Some of him wrapped up, ready for her to open, under the Christmas Tree and another, sizeable, chunk of him slowly cooking in the oven - ready to be dished up with a good portion of roast potatoes. Who knows - she may never discover the shocking truth of what her husband's done either and, more importantly, what he wants to do; kill her and cut her head off so he can stick it on top of the Christmas Tree in place of the usual Angel... YOU decide the outcome. YOU choose the story YOU want to read. With seventeen premature endings, an ultimate 'revenge' ending and an ultimate 'happy' ending - there are numerous ways to shape this evolving story... just, for their sake, try and keep the kids out of harm's way. This is between their parents. Keep it like that.

Similar to the old-style 'choose your own adventure' books, this is the first of it's kind from Matt Shaw ('Happy Ever After' Trilogy and the '9 Months' Trilogy). Each book segment ending with a series of sentences allowing you to choose how the characters progress within the story. Their fate is in your hands as you play God. Re-live your childhood experiences of playing 'interactive' books but remember - this is NOT for children!!!!

Author:

Kristopher Triana

Synopsis:

It’s Christmas Eve. Having lost his wife, Joe Whitaker is spending the day hunting deer with bow and arrow in the mountains of New England. He finds a sense of peace getting back to nature, and even leaves his phone in his truck, wanting to free himself from the everyday world for a few hours. But no sooner does he enter the woods than his peace is interrupted by Nicole, a frantic woman running barefoot through the snow. She claims she was kidnapped and had managed to escape, but the man who imprisoned her is now on her tail and won’t stop until she’s his hostage again.

Joe wants to help Nicole, but when he comes across Dan, the man pursuing her, he’s told Nicole has a serious mental illness and is delusional. Dan claims he isn't her kidnapper - he’s her husband. As a snowstorm bears down on the mountain, Joe soon finds himself in a deadly triangle with a mysterious man and a panicked woman, not knowing who to trust. If he makes the wrong choice, it might just cost him his life.

Author:

Ezekiel Kincaid

Synopsis:

Dr. Elon Constantine has searched for the elusive “eternal eye” for most of his life. He lost his job, his family, and even his standing at a prestigious university. All to follow the warnings of The Seven Thunders, an ancient document he found on an archeological dig in Ephesus. Its contents warn of a cylinder crashing to earth that will release gargantuan creatures in judgment on humanity. Is it divine revelation or madness? All will be made clear on Christmas day.

Author:

Briana Morgan

Synopsis:

When one man’s wish goes horribly wrong, he must make an impossible choice. Faced with his own demons, and at the Tricker-Treater’s mercy, how far will Luke go to keep his daughter from leaving?

For fans of The Tricker-Treater and Other Stories comes a fresh, festive tale of a desperate father and his struggle to preserve his family—fitting for the holiday season.

Author:

Blake Crouch

Synopsis:

On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found.

Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her historian father have set out to explore the long-abandoned town and learn what happened. With them are two backcountry guides—along with a psychic and a paranormal photographer who are there to investigate rumors that the town is haunted.

But Abigail and her companions are about to learn that the town’s ghosts are the least of their worries. Twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they realize they are not alone.

The ordeal that follows will test this small team past the breaking point as they battle the elements and human foes alike—and discover that the town’s secrets still have the power to kill.

Part journey into old-West history, part nail-biting survival thriller, Abandon is a bloody, darkly surprising tale as only Blake Crouch could deliver.

Author:

Brian G. Berry

Synopsis:

Formed of ice, shaped with madness. Malignant, bloodthirsty. This Christmas holiday, not all snowmen come with puffy red noses and a pink flower in their hat or chew on corncob pipes and sing whimsical melodies with a gang of kids in tow. No, there's a new Snowman in town, and the magic behind him is anything but jovial. This year, there's a nightmare in the snow, and the people will soon learn that some snowmen are not what they seem.

Author:

Matthew Cash

Synopsis:

Daisy wants a divorce for Christmas.

Eddie just wants to look after his farm and his beloved animals.

Author:

C.M. Guidroz

Synopsis:

She used to keep the darkness away but now that she's gone, I'm losing control.

I try to be good. I don't want to be this monster.

I am Santa, I am Santa, I am Santa.

I keep telling myself this to help keep my head straight, but those dark urges keep trying to take over. I know what's missing. This missing piece of the Christmas puzzle is her. Mrs. Claus. I have to find her this year. If I don't find her soon, I'm scared the darkness will surely win.

18+ Warning!
This book is not for the sensitive reader. This story has flesh eating reindeer and a knife wielding Santa whose looking for love. If you don't like blood, gore, or campy Christmas horror jokes, this is not the book for you. You have been warned!

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

From the dark mind of Matt Shaw, author of Sick B*stards and Octopus, comes a new take on a classic tale. What if Scrooge saw his past, was reminded of his present and had a glimpse of his future but did not care for how he was perceived by the Spirits offering redemption and salvation? “If I am to be damned with slim chance to yet redeem myself than for why spend the rest of my waking days in trying to make amends when I can but face my demons early and enjoy the warmth offered from the free flames of Hell? You say that this is the fate that awaits unless I change my ways and wants and yet the man you’ve shown is the one whom I am and am proud to be. The what-if is all but weak, the kind of man seen staggering down a street with not a penny in his pocket and yet still taken for a fool by those passing by. I may well be remembered in ways seen as hateful or hurtful but, my spirit, living like this - I am at least remembered.” What if the visits turn Scrooge darker still?!

Author:

Kevin Sweeney

Synopsis:

In this stocking stuffer of a short story collection, you will learn the astonishing and horrifying origin of Santa Claus, how to cook the perfect festive feast when it does NOT want to be eaten, the existential terror of being a snowman, and all about Yule-time traditions around the world as we count down the twelve doomsdays of Xmas!

Author:

Matt Shaw, Wrath James White, Gary McMahon, Michael Bray, Duncan Ralston, Lisa Lane, Jaime Johnesee, Kealan Patrick Burke, Sam West, Jim Goforth, Duncan P. Bradshaw, David Owain Hughes

Synopsis:

Matt Shaw has called upon some of the biggest names in horror to put together an anti-Christmas anthology of horror and weirdness!

Author:

Thomas Altman

Synopsis:

Christmas in Murdock. A time of cozy safety, snowy sidewalks, and carolling children. But this holiday season someone is bating Sheriff Dunsmore in a bizarre and deadly game. Someone is stalking the young women he knows and loves...seducing them with icy steel...leaving them for him to find - fat too late. It's the night before Christmas. The frightened town edges toward panic. And Dunsmore is about to receive the most terrifying gift of all.

Author:

Brian McAuley

Synopsis:

When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on the rocks will have to fight for their lives against a legendary killer… because Candy Cain is slashing through the snow with a very long naughty list.

Author:

Nadia Bulkin, Terry Dowling, Tananarive Due, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Golden, Stephen Graham Jones, Glen Hirshberg, Richard Kadrey, Alma Katsu, Cassandra Khaw, John Langan, Josh Malerman, Nick Mamatas, Garth Nix, Benjamin Percy, M. Rickert, Kaaron Warren

Synopsis:

The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of joy around the world—yet the long nights also conjure a darker tradition of ghouls, hauntings, and visitations. This anthology of all-new stories invites you to huddle around the fire and revel in the unholy, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a time when families and friends come together—for better and for worse.

From the eerie Austrian Schnabelperchten to the skeletal Welsh Mari Lwyd, by way of ravenous golems, uncanny neighbors, and unwelcome visitors, Christmas and Other Horrors captures the heart and horror of the festive season.

Because the weather outside is frightful, but the fire inside is hungry…

Author:

Gemma Amor

Synopsis:

Christmas Eve. A horse-drawn coach battles its way through a terrible snow storm, travelling the old Roman road that cuts across Wheeldale Moor. The carriage bears the miserable burden of Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, a formerly well-to-do couple now fleeing London and the threat of debtor's jail, for Mr. Wilcox has been imprudent with the family fortune.

Not that Mrs. Wilcox cares much for money. She is still grieving a great loss, a loss that cannot be replaced with any number of riches.

As the weather worsens, the carriage is overturned, with deadly consequences. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox find themselves out in a freezing storm, lost, injured and penniless upon the moors. Salvation comes in the form of Wheeldale Inn: the highest public house in Yorkshire. An isolated sanctuary, yet a peculiar one. The Innkeeper seems welcoming enough, but oddities abound: a corpse, a silent son, a surfeit of victuals, and memories that come and go at a whim.

As the intrepid guests settle in, they realise all is definitely not as it seems at Wheeldale. Both husband and wife are forced to confront truths about themselves, their past, their present, and their future in the most terrifying of ways. Will Christmas Day be a happy one for the Wilcox family, or will Wheeldale disrupt their lives so completely there is no coming back?

Author:

L.A. Detwiler

Synopsis:

Some Christmas ornaments should be left in the attic.

When Candace Mills, 26, heads home for the holidays to visit her mother and ailing grandmother, she's expecting a peaceful, dull Christmas. She has no idea, though, that a single Christmas ornament is about to send her into a whirling chasm of evil.

It starts with the Christmas bell, scratched and worn in one of Grandma Anne's boxes in the attic. Once they put it on the tree, Grandma Anne starts to say terrifying things and act strangely. Candace and her mother assume it's her dementia talking—until they start to have dangerous encounters with a fiendish being.

As the secrets of Anne's past involving her twin sister rise to the surface, the women face sinister horrors from a dark force looking for revenge.

Will any of them be able to survive, or will they fall prey to the malevolent secret Grandma Anne is harboring from her past?

Author:

John Lynch

Synopsis:

Life has been difficult for the Feltcher family since the loss of loving wife and mother, Courtney Feltcher.

Her husband, Jack Feltcher, buries his grief in his job, working long hours and neglecting his children.

The Feltcher children struggle with the loss of their mother, and a father who is too busy with work to be present.

Chad Reynolds, an ex-con with a bone to pick plots his revenge, while a malevolent Christmas elf rises.

A nor’easter slams the town as Chad and Sprinkles are on the loose.

There will be no silent night, only…

Author:

Bryan Smith

Synopsis:

Ten years ago on Christmas Eve, Silas Herzinger donned a Santa suit and took an axe to 15 members of his extended family. Luke Herzinger, his youngest son, was the sole survivor of the infamous Herzinger Family Massacre. Now, after a decade away, a despondent and suicidal Luke has come home to face his past and battle the evil that still resides in the old family home on Haunted Hill.

Author:

Mark L'estrange

Synopsis:

A father who will go to any lengths to feed his hungry children. An unsuspecting woman who inherits a house with a deadly secret. A murderous widow who shares a train carriage with Jack the Ripper. Two burglars who bite off more than they can chew during a late-night raid.

These and many more bedtime stories come hideously to life in Mark L'Estrange's nineteen tales of terror, each set on the most festive night of the year. Will anyone survive until Christmas morning?

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

Christmas Day takes an unexpected turnfor Tommy and Jacqueline when they come downstairs and find a strange man and woman standing in their living room. Forced smiles on their faces, the strangers tell the confused children that they're there to celebrate Christmas with them, after their parents were unexpectedly called away.

Whilst the children want answers, the strangers just want to celebrate Christmas but, their way of celebrating is vastly different to how "normal" people celebrate. For Tommy and Jacqueline, the day is about to get a whole lot weirder, and darker.

Author:

Joe R. Lansdale, Jeff Strand, Shane McKenzie, Cody Goodfellow, John Skipp, J.F. Gonzalez, William Meikle, Cyrus Wraith Walker

Synopsis:

Christmas and a birthday collide, criminals get a holiday surprise, a man drifts through a life he once knew and Santa gets hungrier with each passing year. These are just some of the tales of terror found in Christmas Horror Volume 2, featuring all original fiction from Jeff Strand, Elizabeth Massie, Richard Chizmar, Gene O'Neill, Steve Rasnic Tem and William F. Nolan.Table of ContentsChristmas at the Pattersons by Elizabeth MassieLittle Warriors by Gene O'NeillI Saw Santa by Steve Rasnic TemDecember Birthday by Jeff StrandA Note from Santa by William F. NolanSilent Night by Richard Chizmar

Author:

Nasser Rabadi

Synopsis:

For Christy Morrison and her friends, it was supposed to be a weekend of getting drunk and watching movies to celebrate finishing their college semester. But a bloodthirsty killer on the loose has other plans. The group of young women are snowed into the Morrison mansion and begin the weekend festivities; unknown to them a stranger is watching—stalking them and waiting to strike. And he will not stop until they are all dead. Trapped in the worst snowstorm Raven Hill has ever seen, the girls have two fight or die. Enter the Morrison Mansion today and join Christy and her friends against The Raven Hill Butcher—but you might not live to tell the tale! The Christmas Morning Massacre is book 1 in The Raven Hill Butcher series, which continues with The Return to Camp Solgohachia. A fun 1980s slasher book! Fans of Paperbacks from Hell and authors like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Jack Ketchum, Joe Hill, and Jeremy Bates will love this series. It’s a series in the vein of John Carpenter’s Halloween, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Author:

Matthew Cash

Synopsis:

My name is Reginald Carleton, my family vanished seventy years ago. At Christmas. This is my story.

Author:

Joe E. Lansdale

Synopsis:

In the last two years, Calvin has remained alone after an electrical storm turned everyone who witnessed it into zombies, including his wife and daughter. Two long, lonely years have passed, spent barricading himself at home, with sporadic forays into the city to procure the essentials for survival. But today, finally, Calvin decides that Christmas will be celebrated!

He ventures into the local supermarket to get a new tree and other decorations, naturally encountering the hungry undead wandering everywhere. On the way back, he decides to save a poor dog that, like him, is running for its life. The two will then find themselves fighting together against the monstrous hordes, with the hope of being able to savor, despite everything, the sweet atmosphere of Christmas.

Author:

Kealan Patrick Burke

Synopsis:

A boy becomes convinced that there is something not right about the snowmen in his yard...A man takes drastic steps to reconcile with his estranged daughters on Christmas Eve...Santa Claus takes a ride into the heart of darkness...A widower joins the search for a missing woman in an eerily deserted town...And a young man spends one last Christmas with his ailing father.

Author:

Jonathan Tripp

Synopsis:

Alex and his brother Sammy are throwing a Christmas Eve party at their house with some friends. Old school Christmas horror films and good food. All is going good until a winter storm comes through and knocks out the power. In the pure white snow they spot someone dressed as Santa... armed with a knife and an ax with blood all over him.

Author:

David Irons

Synopsis:

Deaf and Dumb Danny loves to spread Christmas cheer.
His sack is so big 'cause he comes once a year.
His sack is so full that it drags on the ground.
He has a rock-hard surprise for every girl in town.
Deaf and Dumb Danny comes down the chimney and fills stockings with his load.
Gives the girls a white Christmas, it looks like it snowed.
While the kids sleep, he leaves them a special surprise. When they wake up, they can't believe their eyes.
It's all over their room, in their bed, on the floor. Candies, treats, and gore galore.
Soon, he'll be visiting every girl around.
It's time to start running 'cause Deaf and Dumb Danny is coming to town!

Author:

Susi Holliday

Synopsis:

It looks like a regular advent calendar.

Until DC Becky Greene starts opening doors… and discovers a crime scene behind almost every one.

The police hope it's a prank. Because if it isn't, a murderer has just surfaced - someone who's been killing for twenty years.

But why now? And why has he sent it to this police station?

As the country relaxes into festive cheer, Greene and DS Eddie Carmine must race against time to catch the killer. Because there are four doors left, and four murders will fill them…

It's shaping up to be a deadly little Christmas.

Author:

Kristopher Rufty

Synopsis:

Grant Marlowe hoped taking his family to their mountain cabin for Christmas would reunite them after his alcoholic past had torn them apart, but it only puts them into a life and death struggle.

On Christmas Eve, a stranger from Grant’s past invades the vacation home and takes his wife and children hostage. The stranger's agenda is simple—make Grant suffer the same torment that Grant’s drunken antics have caused him.

Now Grant must confront his demons head on and fight for his family’s lives. Because this man has nothing left to lose. The only thing keeping him alive is misery—Grant’s misery.

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

It's the night before Christmas and Eve's parents aren't entirely sure they've made the right decisions with regards to presents for their daughter. They repeatedly asked her to write Santa a letter, detailing what she wanted, but she said there was no need because he knew. Apparently, when you're magic like he is, letters are a waste of time. He reaches out to children in their dreams, according to Eve, and learns all they truly want.

That might have been easy for the parents to do too; watch their child and see what she is paying attention to but Eve is closed off to pretty much everyone, including them. She spends most of her time in her bedroom, or just looking out of the window. She doesn't have a favourite cartoon, she shows no care for the latest toys. They don't feel like they really know her and - in the morning - the last thing they want to do is disappoint her by presenting the wrong gifts.

As the clock struck midnight, they knew they only had a few more hours before she'd wake and their day would begin. Neither of them could sleep. Neither of them wanted to ruin the magic of Christmas by having Santa "guess wrong…"

Author:

Jon Cohn

Synopsis:

How well do we really know the people sleeping next to us in bed at night?

After a tragedy strikes the Barnes family, Sarah's husband Tom begins acting strangely. It starts with wild mood-shifts and accusations at their thirteen-year old daughter, but quickly escalates to the attempted murder of an off-season mall Santa. From what Sarah can tell, Tom's only motive seems to lie behind a mysterious hatred for Christmas that burns year round. What's worse, Tom's only defense lies in a long-forgotten book he wrote detailing a traumatic event in his childhood that seems too far-fetched to be believed. His entire case revolves around the notion of talking Christmas trees, a living army of toys, and worst of all, a monster masquerading as Mrs. Claus.

Now, Sarah must go on a journey into her husband's past to learn if Tom is in the midst of a psychotic breakdown, if he's a danger to his family, or if he really is being hunted by the malevolent holiday horror that destroyed his childhood.

Author:

Harrison Phillips

Synopsis:

This book contains scenes of explicit violence and gore.Joe's got a lot to deal with this Christmas...His job as a mall Santa isn't exactly fulfilling.His boss is an arsehole.His girlfriend is a nymphomaniac, who seemingly needs to be pleasured every five minutes.Then there's the storm that's rolled into town, supposedly the worst in a century.Worse still - and unbeknownst to Joe - there's a yeti on the loose. It broke free from a military facility and now it's headed towards the mall in which he's working.Will Joe even make it to Christmas this year? Or will the yeti crack open his skull and feast upon his delicious brains?

Author:

Ben Kardos

Synopsis:

After catching her mom in an affair with Santa Claus, Felicia is convinced they killed her beloved daddy in order to be together. She has one year to plot her revenge against the evil elf that destroyed her family.

Next Christmas, blood will flow, and heads will roll. This nasty story of Christmas vengeance is guaranteed to ruin your holiday spirit.

Author:

Jeff Belanger

Synopsis:

Christmas time is truly the darkest and creepiest time of the year filled with devilish creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to get us. Best known is the Krampus who has been the subject of films and songs. There was a time in the late 1800s when people sent Krampus cards, not holiday greetings. There are other violent and dangerous monsters from all over northern climes who have been hunting naughty children for centuries. From shapeshifters to mountain trolls, to elves, to heavy-handed cohorts of Saint Nicholas, the Christmas holiday has been filled with ghosts and monsters ready to dole out punishment to those who need it.

Author:

John McNee

Synopsis:

With a failing economy and dwindling population, the once-flourishing mining community of St. Nicholas in northern Canada was on the road to ruin.

That was until the arrival of the Bingzhen Group, a Chinese-American conglomerate with ambitious plans to buy the town and transform it into the most popular ski resort and holiday destination in North America.

With the deal done and Christmas approaching, the community is buzzing with excitement about the future and the influx of new residents, like Binzhen envoy Ling Wong, Scottish schoolteacher Shona Fleming, new school custodian Curtis Tate and a small army of contractors. What none of them realize is that St. Nicholas was never the people's to give away.

There is something else here which has long laid claim to the land. Something which has held the town in its thrall and does not intend to give it up without a fight. Something strange and inhuman. Something cruel and powerful and very, very, hungry.

The children call him Santa Claus.

Author:

Kelley Armstrong, Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Thomas E. Sniegoski, Sarah Lotz, Josh Malerman, Jeff Strand, Christopher Golden, James A. More, Sarah Langan, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Maberry, John M. McIlveen, Angela Slatter, Tim Lebbon, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough

Synopsis:

Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, and many more.

That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. Marley untying the bandage that holds his jaws together. The hideous children--Want and Ignorance--beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The heavy ledgers Marley drags by his chains. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts.

Bestselling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

Christmas is a time of joy and peace and family and… and… nope… I got nothing. I don't even believe it is for joy, peace and family! It's a time for PRESENTS! Leave the loot at the door and leave me be! Allow me to dwell in my misery and the coldness of my abode. Keep the festive cheer and give me some horror!

The Haunting of the North Pole (and other festive horrors) is a collection of horror stories (never published before) from the dark mind of Matt Shaw (author of Sick B*stards, Octopus and How Much To…?).

It's Christmas Eve. The presents are wrapped. The kids are asleep. Snuggle down in front of the fire and enjoy some horror!

Author:

Steven Grimm, Lissa Marie Redmond, Beth Mann, Anya J. Davis, E.J. Hagadorn, S.E. Foley, Brad P. Christy, Ross Baxter, Nancy Brewka-Clark, Tamsin Showbrook, E.M. Eastick, Jude Tulli

Synopsis:

Krampus is the cloven-hoofed, curly-horned, and long-tongued dark companion of St. Nick. Sometimes a hero, sometimes a villain, within these pages, he’s always more than just a sidekick. You’ll meet manifestations of Santa’s dark servant as he goes toe-to-toe with a bratty Cinderella, a guitar-slinging girl hero, a coffee shop-owning hipster, and sometimes even St. Nick himself. Whether you want a dash of horror or a hint of joy and redemption, these 12 new tales of Krampus will help you gear up for the most “wonderful” time of the year.

Author:

Edward Lee

Synopsis:

Flying off course during a horrific storm, Santa and his reindeers find themselves within a grim situation. From extreme horror author, Edward Lee, comes a new novelette HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS. The stockings are overflowing with chaos and despair. HO-HO-HO!

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

It didn't used to just be Mr. and Mrs. Claus living in the North Pole, with the reindeer and Elves. Mr. And Mrs. Claus once had a young daughter too, until a tragic accident claimed her life. For years, Santa had worked hard, making over children all across the world happy, whilst burying his grief. But, one year, his pain and rage come crashing back to the surface when a routine house visits brings back the once buried memories. A festive tale of grief, love and kidnapping...This is a short story, ideal for those of you on Kindle Unlimited.

Author:

P.F. McGrail, Tobias Wade, Blair Daniels, Kyle Harrison, Jacob Mandeville, Chris Thompson, R.C. Bowman, Matt Dymerski, E. Z. Morgan

Synopsis:

The first day of Christmas was when the town started to fall apart.

The second day of Christmas was when people started to die.

By the thirteenth day of Christmas, it was too late to go back.

Or was it?

Twenty-six authors combined their talents to tell the horrifying story of Serenity Falls, Wisconsin. Piece by piece, the unsettling truth is revealed, culminating in a dark secret far bigger than any single writer’s imagination. Hope and despair are doled out in unequal measures as the town’s citizens struggle to discover the painful truth.

One day at a time.

Author:

Ben Farthing

Synopsis:

Something festive is growing in the sewer… After last year’s tragedy, Douglas’ parents are ignoring Christmas.But when Douglas finds an eerie strand of lights slithering through the sewer, he unwittingly unleashes merry terror upon his neighborhood’s tacky lights contest. String lights spread like invasive kudzu, turning festive decorations into surreal, predatory nightmares.Determined not to lose both Christmas and his family forever, Douglas gathers his courage to confront the source of the holiday deep in the concrete pipes beneath the street.I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street is a horror tale from the “darkly inventive” purveyor of uncanny places and wondrous evils, Ben Farthing.

Author:

Roman Dirge

Synopsis:

It would have been a Christmas like any other for little Lumie and her horrible, terrible, obnoxious, awful bully of a brother Billy. But then a funny little monster appeared and ate Billy right up! Lumie knows it's not really a good thing to let a monster eat your brother, but she can't help but notice that things are, in fact, much nicer now that he's gone. Now that things are looking up a little in her world, Lumie has to decide what to do with her new little monster friend, and - most importantly - what she's going to feed him.

Author:

Gemma Amor

Synopsis:

It's Christmas day in the morning, and all is calm, all is bright.Or is it? Peter and his young niece Alice are unwrapping presents when they first hear a sound, long and loud and wrong, somehow.The kind of sound that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stir.The kind of sound that is a harbinger to grief, and suffering. Screams, coming from next door.Peter finds his teenaged neighbour cowering, terrified and blood-soaked in her hallway. Her mom and dad are nowhere to be seen. When he eventually discovers them- or what is left of them- he wishes he hadn't.Because someone, or something, has butchered the Morris family, and made peculiar festive decorations with their remains.Deranged killer, or something else entirely? Whatever it is, it came down the chimney...And it's killing spree is just getting started. Can Peter keep Alice safe? Or will they end up the same grisly ornamnets on a blood-soaked tree?This quick, pacy horror creature feature from Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author Gemma Amor is the perfect festive bite-sized treat for fans of Predator and Krampus, and is the ideal stocking filler for fans of the macabre, the weird and the downright creepy.

Author:

Brom

Synopsis:

Santa Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murderer, a liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming for your head. . . . I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide…

—from Krampus

Author:

Gerald Cole

Synopsis:

Christmas is seen through the eyes of thirteen different people in these stories from around the world.

1. A mean village boy calls upon St. Nicholas to help him get rid of the monster Krampus.

2. Rejected by his one true love, Teeter disguises himself as the Belsnickle to get his revenge.

3. La Befana has a surprise visit from three wise men that changes her life forever.

4. Hans Trapp makes a deal with the devil, but it doesn't work out exactly as he planned.

5. An American girl learns that there are consequences to telling lies at Christmas time in France.

6. Mr. Fox has his eye on a rich woman's wealth. But when he finds out she actually has no money, he resorts to murder, only to discover some crimes can never be forgiven.

7. A childless couple create a snowchild, but there is magic in the air.

8. Young Joseph encounters the witch Baba Yaga.

9. Conrad's grandmother is living with Alzheimer and he refuses to let her mind drift away without a fight. But characters from her past might have a different plan.

10. Johnny travels to Iceland to escape Death, but his wicked deeds seem to pale when he encounters thirteen trolls.

11. Lucy is chosen to play Sankta Lucia this Christmas and her gift comes with a magical journey.

12. The holidays are fast approaching in Greece, but evil imps might destroy the world before Christmas Day.

13. A performer discovers that people can appreciate humor in a wild variety of ways.

Author:

Eldritch Black

Synopsis:

Krampus Night is coming, bringing dark fairy tales, waking legends and a magical battle for the heart of Christmas.

Gabrielle Greene has just been crowned the worst girl who ever lived, and she doesn’t know it yet but she’s leaped to the top of Krampus’ naughty list. Krampus, the mysterious sinister Winter King. Krampus the warden of Christmas who comes calling once a year seeking wicked children to haul back to his snowy lands.

When Gabrielle’s younger brother vanishes she sets out searching for him but soon finds herself hurtling into a shadowy otherworld. A place of terrible trolls, murky forests, coal-black mountains, Christmas charms and fearsome beasts.

Can Gabrielle rescue her brother from the fiendish Krampus? Will she become The Thief of Christmas?

As the clock ticks Gabrielle discovers her decisions have created terrible consequences, consequences that she must face if she’s going to stand a chance of saving Christmas.

Krampus & The Thief of Christmas is a magical adventure of spine-tingling thrills, yuletide fun and festive delights. Get your copy today!

Author:

M. Rickert

Synopsis:

Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner―all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is―she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner. And when that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they each tell a ghost story. One that’s seasonally appropriate.

Author:

Matthew Vaughn

Synopsis:

All Tom wanted to do was get a Magic Elf doll for his kid, Jack. Maybe it was a little weird that the toy store had an aisle roped off because of a murder. And so what if there was a little blood on the box? Jack loves his elf, unfortunately, he's not the nicest elf. He has the tendency to be a little bloodthirsty and sadistic. Now it's a question of whether Tom and his little family will even survive to see Christmas.

Author:

Matthew Vaughn

Synopsis:

Zanex lives a rough life with her drugged out Momma and step dad. She wants a real family, with parents who love her. And she wishes Santa would bring her a new dolly for Christmas. Instead, a friend of the family gives her a Magic Elf Doll. Now this will be a Christmas Zanex won't ever forget.

Buttersnap's Revenge is the sequel to the 2022 holiday splatterfest, The Magic Elf Christmas Massacre! Buttersnap's back, and he's still pissed about his stupid name!

Author:

Lindsay Crook

Synopsis:

With 8 days left until the big day- the gifts are wrapped and Santa's grotto is open, Christmas mania is spreading.

Author:

Brian G. Berry

Synopsis:

You've heard of ugly Christmas sweaters, right?

Well, this is an ugly Sharksmas tale. Follow Bruce Webb and his family as they fight for their lives against an ugly Christmas decoration powered to deadly life by witchcraft!

Author:

Alison Littlewood

Synopsis:

Leah Hamilton is looking for a new life following the tragic deaths of her husband and son. Determined to bury her grief in hard work, and desperate to escape Christmas and the pitying looks of her colleagues, she rushes through the purchase of a run-down Yorkshire farmhouse, arriving just as the snow shrouds her new home.

It may look like a Christmas card, but it's soon clear it's not just the house needing renovation; the land is in bad heart too. And Leah's mind starts playing tricks on her: she hears a child playing in the snow, but although there are snowballs, there are no footprints. Is this the ghost of her son, returned to her? She starts having visions of the farm's former occupants - the young widow and her son, the cousin who's wooing her, the maid who shares her secrets and the handsome labourer who's hanged for the murder of a child, a murder he didn't commit.

Is Leah strong enough to lay the increasingly malevolent ghosts and find a way to move on? Or will her ashes end up scattered over the now-covered fields?

Author:

Nikolas P. Robinson, Elizabeth J. McKee

Synopsis:

Grace loves nativity scenes. They're the centerpiece of her annual Christmas displays. But for last couple of years, vandals have taken it upon themselves to demolish nativity set after nativity set, leaving Grace feeling increasingly defeated and sad.

This year is going to be different. This time, Grace will get her revenge and she'll have a nativity set that will rival anything she could buy from a department store. This Christmas... you'll believe in the indomitable power of one old woman's Christmas spirit.

Author:

Taylor Adams

Synopsis:

A thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.

Author:

Joe Hill

Synopsis:

An old Silver Wraith with a frightening history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished business.

Anyone could be next.

We're going to Christmasland...

NOS4A2 is an old-fashioned horror novel in the best sense. Claustrophobic, gripping and terrifying, this is a story that will have you on the edge of the seat while you read, and leaving the lights on while you sleep. With the horrific tale of Charles Manx and his Silver Wraith, Joe Hill has established himself as the premiere horror and supernatural thriller writer of his generation.

Author:

Carietta Dorsch, Sarah DeRosa

Synopsis:

Marshall Steele's contempt for Christmas ignites hatred like no other within himself.

Heather Ketner, already fragile, faces a holiday season filled with dread and doubt.

Marshall's sanity unravels even further.

Heather's desperate attempts to find joy are shattered when Marshall's twisted world meets with hers.

O Come All Ye Fearful into a night of pure hell, where slay bells are screaming and white Christmas turns red.

Author:

Aron Beauregard, Daniel J. Volpe, Kristopher Triana

Synopsis:

A limited run Christmas edition from three of extreme horror's most jolly minds.

Author:

Matt Shaw

Synopsis:

Families at Christmas with secrets and all their craziness.

Author:

Damien Casey

Synopsis:

Chris and Jessica take a brother and sister road trip to Gallipolis, Ohio. Jessica wants to see the famous Christmas lights; Chris wants to travel across the river to Point Pleasant, WV to find The Mothman. Could it be possible that they both unwrap the gifts they asked for? Best Christmas ever?

Author:

Brian Asman

Synopsis:

When Christmas supply warehouse manager Jimmy tries to help new employee Tommy find a last-minute gift for his girlfriend, they accidentally unleash a long-forgotten and very seasonal genetic experiment with a taste for human flesh. As elf-zombie hybrids take over the small town of Pine Canyon, California, Jimmy fights to survive alongside a Christpunk named Landfill, and a mysterious, PTSD-stricken soldier. Hold onto your stockings because the goddamn elves are back, baby!

Author:

Michael R. Goodwin

Synopsis:

In the square, the villagers had gathered for The Ritual, which hasn't been performed in more than thirty years. Only those old enough to have been at the last one knew the full gravity of what was to come. Everyone (even the children) knew why they had gathered, but there was only so much that could be conveyed through the retelling of a tale.

Some things you had to see for yourself to truly understand.

Author:

Michael R. Goodwin

Synopsis:

THE RITUAL CONTINUES...Immediately following the brutal events that take place in THE RITUAL, the elder Nicholas must deliver the sacrifice inside his burlap sack to the coven who reside deep in the Red Forest. Once the true purpose of the ritual is revealed, Nicholas risks it all in an attempt to make things right.

Author:

R.J. Benetti

Synopsis:

The Winterbottoms have all of the money in the world, to buy all of the material goods they could ever want. Yet none of that seems to matter, because a grocery store Santa with a vendetta has shown up on their doorstep on Christmas day, looking to take their lives.

Author:

R.J. Benetti

Synopsis:

Here comes the Christmas present nobody ever asked for. DEATH! And of course some necrophiliac elves. Santa Muerte Claus is back and he's more brutal than ever.

Author:

D.W. Hitz

Synopsis:

All Danny Robinson wants for Christmas is a drone to help make his first horror movie. He has a few friends who can join him if they survive the holiday season.

What Satan's general wants is a way to bring her army to Earth. But is Christmas the best time for world domination?

What Santa wants is a new Mrs. Claus. Some of that old bedroom magic's gotten a little mundane, and her elf pot pie isn't as good as it used to be.

Can Danny get his drone, or will Satan run free? And will Santa be able to save Christmas or be stuck with the same old pie?

Santa Vs. Satan is EXTREME HORROR containing graphic SEX, VIOLENCE, and GORE. You should not read this. You've been warned.

Author:

John Ward

Synopsis:

Christmas is the most magical time of the year. Between the decorations, the movies, and the fun family traditions, you can truly feel the Christmas spirit. While visiting a local Christmas store, things seem to take a terrifying turn when Kelsey notices the store owner, Madame Trudeau, performing a strange ritual over the trio of elf dolls her younger brother Colby picked out.Strange and chilling occurrences lead Kelsey to believe the dolls can come to life. What’s scarier than a creepy doll? How about three vengeful elf dolls?

Author:

Ronald Kelly

Synopsis:

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree... what lurks among thy branches...

Christmas can be the most wonderful time of the year. Candy canes and hot cocoa. Snowmen and sleigh rides. The love and hope that the Nativity brings. Cold milk and warm cookies for Santa. Family, friends, and the cheerful laughter of children.

But, beneath the festive wrapping paper and the gleam and glitter of the lights and tinsel, things less jubilant may lie in wait. The holiday season can bring love, peace, and benevolence... but it may also spawn a darkness lurking amid the shadowy boughs of the Christmas tree, ornaments that should have never seen the light of day, let along hung on festive branches, and bones that jingle and dance, in search of Santa's crimson suit... and the flesh that resides within.

In this collection of harrowing holiday tales, Ronald Kelly leaves ten frightful and horrific gifts in the Christmas stockings that hang from the mantle of your cheerful fireplace. Ghastly and gruesome presents that slowly unwrap and burst into life while you are tucked, snug and warm, in your bed and take on nightmarish form in the icy winter hours of Christmas Eve, turning comfort and joy into terror and dread.

Author:

Andrew Shaffer

Synopsis:

The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening horror-comedy set during the horror publishing boom of the ’80s, by New York Times best-selling satirist Andrew Shaffer.

Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub. It’s the ’80s, after all, and horror is the hottest genre.

But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of her co-workers' mean-spirited pranks. The hazing reaches its peak during the company’s annual Secret Santa gift exchange, when Lussi receives a demonic-looking object that she recognizes but doesn't understand. Suddenly, her coworkers begin falling victim to a series of horrific accidents akin to a George Romero movie, and Lussi suspects that her gift is involved. With the help of her former author, the flamboyant Fabien Nightingale, Lussi must track down her anonymous Secret Santa and figure out the true meaning of the cursed object in her possession before it destroys the company—and her soul.

Author:

R.L. Stine

Synopsis:

Don’t listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn’t you rather explore it yourself…and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You’re not afraid, are you?

Don’t open that present!

If only Reva Dalby had listened to that warning.

But beautiful, cold Reva won’t listen to anyone. Reva thinks she can have whatever—and whoever—she wants. After all, her daddy owns Dalby Department Stores.

Now, someone has some surprises instore for her. Robbery? Terror? Even murder? Someone wants to treat Reva to a holiday she’ll never forget.

Holiday cheer quickly turns to holiday chills for Reva. Someone is stalking her, someone is trying to get to her.

Her money can’t help her. No one can.

After all, who can you turn to when murder comes gift-wrapped?

Author:

R.L. Stine

Synopsis:

Rich, spoiled, and beautiful Reva Dalby thinks that the world is hers for the taking--that is, until a stalker wearing a Santa Claus suit decides to kidnap Reva. Original.

Author:

R.L. Stine

Synopsis:

Wishing to become famous one holiday season, spoiled rich girl Reva Dalby believes that her prosperous father can give her anything she wants…but when she goes too far, she realizes that someone is stalking her.

Author:

Andre Gonzalez

Synopsis:

The holidays are a time for magic, cheer, and making memories. Brandon and Erin begin a new family tradition by introducing the elf on a shelf to their young children. When Erin brings home their newly purchased elf, little do they know the horror that awaits.

During the weeks leading up to Christmas, incidents occur around the house, some innocent, some sinister. As the days become less jolly, Brandon suspects an evil spirit haunting their home.

Questioning his own sanity, he recognizes a pair of crazy, gray plastic eyes always watching.

Author:

Tanya Kirk

Synopsis:

Festive cheer turns to maddening fear in this new collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the best Christmas ghost stories from the 1850s to the 1960s. The traditional trappings of the holiday are turned upside down as restless spirits disrupt the merry games of the living, Christmas trees teem with spiteful pagan presences, and the Devil himself treads the boards at the village pantomime. As the cold night of winter closes in and the glow of the hearth begins to flicker and fade, the uninvited visitors gather in the dark in this distinctive assortment of haunting tales.

Author:

K.L. Hiers

Synopsis:

Egor Soska and his gang of thieves stumble onto the quaint mountain town of Hollytown to lay low after a big score…

But the local obsession with Christmas perfection and holiday themed tropes may turn deadly if they don't follow the right storyline.

Author:

Matthew Cash

Synopsis:

Louie isn't my real dad.

Me and Saffy don't like Louie. He's nasty to us, says nasty things, and now Mummy and Nanna have disappeared. He says they've gone shopping but Nanna's left her trolley here and Louie keeps doing stuff in his man-cave.

Author:

H. Duke

Synopsis:

The Thing on the Shelf: A Tale of Christmas Terror (#1)
When thrift store worker Erin finds a posable elf doll in a box of donations, she gets into the holiday spirit and starts posing it around the store. Everything is candy canes and sugar plums—until the elf starts moving on its own. Are her co-workers playing tricks on her, or is she going crazy? Because it’s just not possible that the elf doll is alive… right? Erin must find out the truth, or she stands to lose more than her Christmas bonus this year.

The Thing in the House: A Second Tale of Christmas Terror (#2)
Seven-year-old Bianca can’t understand why Santa brings her friends everything they ask for every Christmas, but brings her cheap toys from the dollar store. So when she discovers an elf doll at one of the houses her mother cleans for a living, she begs it to intervene with Santa on her behalf. But when the elf starts to move around the house on its own, she may get more than she asked for this Christmas.

The Thing Behind the Door: A Third Tale of Christmas Terror (#3)
It’s gearing up to be a lonely Christmas for Jake Kensington. He may be the richest man in town, but his wife is dead and his son thinks he’s crazy. He won’t even get to see his granddaughter on Christmas.

When he wins a strange doll at an auction, it lifts his spirits… until items in his house start to move when no one is home and strange noises echo the halls at night. Jake just might discover that money really can’t buy Christmas cheer… but it can buy Christmas terror!

Author:

Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs. Gaskell, S. Baring-Gould, Ron Goulart, Grant Allen, James Mcconnell, J.T. Mcintosh

Synopsis:

We wish you a macabre Christmas with thirteen of the best horror tales of the season. Hang your stocking with very special care by “The Chimney,” a chiller about what really comes down from the roof on Christmas Eve. Or join Robert Bloch on “The Night Before Christmas” by trimming the tree…in a shocking fashion. It’s hardly a silent night even in outer space, where Arthur C. Clarke makes our blood run cold with the truth about Bethlehem’s star.

So curl up by those chestnuts roasting on an open fire…as these masters leave you screaming on a white Christmas.

Author:

Arthur Conan Doyle,Sir Walter Scott

Synopsis:

During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume.

Author:

Allison Lahikainen

Synopsis:

A benevolent 17th-cenury toy maker leaves his shop one night to take some of his toys to some good little children whose parents can't afford them. On his way back, he meets three attractive women with exaggerated orthodonture and what he's become still exists into the present, still judges who's naughty and nice but few would call him benevolent, now! Story, character, and concept by Sal Lizard.

Author:

Sergio Gomez

Synopsis:

On Christmas, during one of the worst snowstorms Indiana has ever seen, five strangers are forced to take shelter inside of a roadside diner. As the night progresses, the snowfall shows no signs of relenting, ice begins to build up on the roads, and the temperature seems to be dropping by the hour. But the worst has nothing to do with the weather, and everything to do with the sixth visitor coming to the diner.

The jolliest time of the year quickly turns bloody as the diners find themselves fighting for their lives. This Christmas won’t just be white. It’ll be red, too.

Author:

Aaron Dries, Mark Allan Gunnells

Synopsis:

There are monsters in this world. And they used to be us. Now it's time to euthanize to survive in a hospice where Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible.

Post-infection Chicago. Christmas.

Author:

J.G. Faherty

Synopsis:

No one in Anders Bach’s family believed his old tales of Winterwood, a place where Krampus and his Wild Hunt rule a frozen land and where bad children don’t get coal for Christmas, they get baked into pies or forced into slavery. But now the Yule Lads have kidnapped Anders’s grandsons, and he has to rescue them before they’re lost forever. Anders and his daughter must cross the divide between worlds and enter Winterwood, where evil holds sway and even the reindeer have a taste for human flesh. By the time the sun rises, they’ll learn the awful truth about Winterwood: there is no escape without sacrifice.

Author:

Joe Hill

Synopsis:

Discover the terrifying funhouse world of Christmasland and the ageless monster who rules it. Climb into the passenger seat as Hill and artist Charlie Wilson III explore Charlie Manx's twisted beginnings, introduce a new and depraved cast of characters to Christmasland, and take us for a 100 MPH ride down an icy nightmare road in a car with no brakes…

Author:

Rebecca M. Senese

Synopsis:

Add some horror to your ho ho ho with these 5 gruesome Christmas tales. A boy waits for Santa... with an axe! Who is the man in red and why is he stalking Randy? Sinister reindeer cause trouble for Billy. Santa finds more than presents under the tree. Forget shopping, try to escape the mall alive this Christmas Eve! "Waiting for Santa," "The Santa Murders," "Billy and the Reindeer," "He Knows," and "A Very Zombie Christmas."

Author:

D.J. Doyle, Lee Franklin

Synopsis:

Blood is soaking the streets of Shawville this festive season. Residents are getting more than they bargained for at Laymon's Lot tree farm. Horror writers D.J. Doyle and Lee Franklin invite you into the darkest depths of their twisted psyches. From horny snowmen to flesh-eating elves, and the body count soaring, we encourage you to sit down, put your feet up, and allow us to disgust you with our depraved minds.Countdown twelve days to a very bloody Xmas.

Author:

Matt Forgit

Synopsis:

SOMEONE EVIL IS DREAMING OF A RED CHRISTMAS

What would happen if the world of Hallmark Christmas movies collided with slasher movies like Black Christmas, Friday the 13th, Halloween,and Scream?

Mary Classen is the successful CEO of a booming tinsel company in the quiet town of Tinselvania, Maine. Perpetually single and surrounded by quirky friends and townspeople, her world is flipped upside down when Bright Harmon, a rising star in the competitive world of tinsel-selling, arrives from a New York City Christmas conglomerate to discuss a potential partnership.

Meanwhile, the town of Tinselvania is under attack by a bloodthirsty, maniacal serial killer dressed as a reindeer. Why are they here? What do they want? Can Mary and Bright balance a blossoming romance and stop a deranged murderer before it’s too late?

Author:

R.L. Stine

Synopsis:

Rick Scroogeman hates Christmas. He can't stand the carols and the pageants. He can't stand the lights and the mistletoe. But what he hates the most is having to watch the old movie A Christmas Carol every year at school. Since his name is Scroogeman, all of his classmates start calling him Scrooge. And he hates being called Scrooge.

But everything starts to change when three ghosts visit him. At first, he thinks it's a dream. But then he realizes that it might be a nightmare. A nightmare that could become real.

Young Scrooge: A Very Scary Christmas Story is a funny, scary middle-grade send up of A Christmas Carol, about a boy who hates Christmas, from bestselling Goosebumps author R. L. Stine.

Author:

J.C. Moore

Synopsis:

A blizzard pounds upstate New York. The wind moans and the never stopping snow...and blood...pile up.

The weather forces strangers from different walks of life to shelter from the storm as a monstrous creature crashes their festivities. The being inhabits the bodies of the slain like a malicious virus.

This isn't a night for Santa and children's smiles as evil delivers a whole new meaning to a "night before Christmas!"

Author:

John Lynch, Patrick C. Harrison III, Kristopher Rufty, Tim Curran, David Irons, Judith Sonnet, Tim Meyer, Robert Essig, Carl John Lee, Brian G. Berry

Synopsis:

Santa's got some blood on his hands this holiday season. Rampaging reindeer deck the halls with brains and bones. Scream along with late-night Christmas shoppers as a terrifyingly mutated Santa Claus leaves the town bloody with corpses. Arm yourself to defend against a ruthless, out-of-control military project on the loose. Each unique tale inside is woven with the spirit of the season, sheared open and dumped in your lap with a heavy dose of gore and fun.Featuring all-new stories John Lynch, Patrick C. Harrison III, Kristopher Rufty, Tim Curran, David Irons, Judith Sonnet, Tim Meyer, Robert Essig, Carl John Lee, Brian G. Berry