Christmas Horror Shorts

Hugo Award-winning editor, and horror legend Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, and many more. 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.

This Christmas, love is the most valuable data of all In the radioactive ruins of a dying city, Christmas still flickers like an old memory with the faint hope that love can survive the end of the world. Della scavenges the wastelands for bio-luminescent fungus to trade for medicine. Jim performs outlawed surgeries with trembling hands and stolen tech. Together, they’ve built a fragile life among the wreckage, still clinging to the idea of giving, of sacrifice. But when each secretly bargains their body to buy the other a gift, they fall prey to a deeper horror: the corporation that ...

Void Verse: A Second Christmas - A LitRPG Adventure (2-hour of Less adventure) Last Christmas, Maximus Killian delivered gifts to the damned. This year, he must save one. When the imp Pym returns with another Santa mission, Maximus wants to refuse. The memories of Arkham—the dead-eyed people, the shoggoths, the little girl named Lily—still haunt his dreams. But when he learns that Lily has escaped from behind the Gates of R'lyeh and is threatening an entire parallel, he has no choice but to don the Santa Power Suit once more. His mission: Stop a ancient evil before she claims a god's ...

CHRISTMAS ON GREEK ROW: A SHORT-STORY THRILLER Two disappearances, One night. Zero answers. When Leighton Adams' boyfriend and sorority sister vanish following a fraternity Christmas party, she refuses to accept the silence from those around her. Her search drags her into a maze of secrets and jaw-dropping twists hiding behind Cabot's holiday charm. This Christmas, Leighton won't stop until she uncovers the truth. Even if someone is willing to kill to keep it buried.

Twelve nights. Twelve stories. One season of goodwill gone horribly wrong. From horror author Kevin Lintner comes a chilling Christmas collection where cheer curdles into terror and every light on the tree casts a shadow of its own. Under the Mistletoe of Madness unwraps the quiet horrors hiding behind holiday tradition—family dinners, nativity plays, viral kindness, and corporate gifts that bite back. When the carols fade and the snow begins to whisper, you’ll meet: 🎅 The Santa Games — desperate men compete for a mall Santa job, but only the last one standing earns the red suit. ...

This is an omnibus that features all three volumes of Twelve Days of Christmas Horror in one box set. Including such stories as "'Twas the Night Before Murder", "The Nativity of the Living Dead", "Secret Santa for the Sadistic", "Elf on a Shelf", and "A Christmas Carol: The Aftermath". It's time for your festivities to get frightening.

The gift you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy... maybe. Amber, a young woman working in a small retail store on Christmas Eve, finds herself amid chaos when the hot holiday toy, Scurry Furry, comes to life and begins wreaking havoc. The once-adorable creatures become a horde of vicious monsters, leaving a trail of destruction and gore in their wake. With no outside help, Amber and her employees must take matters into their own hands and fight against the Scurry Furry army. The situation is darkly humorous, as Amber and her team wield anything they can find as a weapon, from baseball bats ...

From the author of Tiny Terrors and Flashes of Fear comes a new collection of flash fiction horror stories. And all are Christmas themed! Some are just 100 words. Some are a little over 2,000 words. All are full of wintery, holiday creepiness! This is the first book of a three-book series, but they can be read in any order. This volume contains: Christmas Snacks Black Friday Trimming the Tree And 9 other flash fiction stories!

A disgraced scholar. A silent village. And a bell that listens to the dark. Winter, 1888. Exiled by a professional scandal to the frozen coast of Wales, Alastair Finch has accepted a lonely commission: cataloging the library of the late, eccentric Baronet of Portmeirion. Trapped in the drafty Gatehouse Library by a relentless blizzard, Alastair finds his only company is the whistling wind and the rhythmic scratching of his own pen. Until he discovers the Vigil-Bell Log. Hidden among the archives, the leather-bound journal belonged to a missing bell-ringer who vanished on Christmas Eve five ...

Winter doesn't just bring cold. It brings hunger. Winter Teeth collects eight tales of winter horror where the season is a character, and it doesn't play fair. From supernatural snowmen to predatory storms, from haunted apartments to corporate holiday parties gone wrong, these stories ask: what if winter had teeth? Dark, sharp, and ice-cold, this collection is for readers who like their holidays with a body count and their horror with a wink. Because nothing says "season's greetings" like frostbite and fear.

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. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling 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.

The holidays are supposed to be magical. Warm. Safe. They're not. Beneath the tinsel and the carols and the comfortable lies you tell yourself every December, something darker has always been waiting. Twelve twisted tales that drag Christmas into the shadows where it belongs — stories of ancient evils that wake with the first snowfall, family traditions soaked in blood, gods and devils settling old scores, and the kind of humans who make the monsters look reasonable. No Hallmark endings. No redemption arcs. No mercy. 12 Deaths of Christmas is the holiday horror anthology for readers still...

The Santa Army needs you. The Void needs saving. And Maximus Killian is on the naughty list… for the monsters. When a peculiar little creature appears in his home, Maximus finds himself drafted into the System’s most unlikely strike force: the Santa Army. Armed with Santa Power Armor, a handful of potent potions, and an interdimensional sack of gifts, he’s hurled across the cosmic void on a mission only a madman—or a hero—would accept. Because the children of the void must receive their presents… even as the minions of Cthulhu rise. From the glittering edges of distant parallels...

Scary Stories That Will Make You SH17 Yourself – 12 Christmas Nightmares The festive season just got horrifyingly unforgettable… You think Christmas is all twinkling lights, cosy nights, and harmless family chaos? Think again. Scary Stories That Will Make You SH17 Yourself – 12 Christmas Nightmares drags the holiday season kicking and screaming into the abyss with a dozen of the most twisted, darkly hilarious, and nightmare-fuelled tales you’ll ever read. Inside this terrifying advent calendar of doom, you’ll meet: – Krampus, returning to deal with the naughtiest child of all…...

Ghosts, monsters, and the horrors of the human mind are just some of the scary things awaiting you in this collection of Christmas-themed flash fiction stories. Some stories are right at 300 words. Some are over 1,000. All are ready to give you the creeps. Christmas Creeps! This is the third book in the series, but they can be read in any order. This final volume contains: Cookies for Santa The Last Holiday Karen and the Christmas Monster and nine more creepy little stories to keep you scared and reading during the holidays.

Silent Night. Not Calm. Not Bright. Reggie was alone for Christmas. He liked it that way. But when he goes to a secluded cabin in the woods, he encounters something sinister among the trees. A strange red velvet sack waits for him along his hiking path. Inside is the gift of terror. Soon, Reggie finds himself thrust into a bizarre and horrifying world where the trappings of Christmas are deadly perversions of what he's always known. The only question is: will he escape with his life, or will he become fuel for a dark entity's fire and sustenance for its meal? Walking in a Winter Terrorland ...

It's time for another collection of twisted Christmas stories from your favorite dark elf, B.D. Anklevich. The stories range from strange, to creepy, to unusual, to nasty, to heartwarming, and jolly. It's holiday collection that will surely fill your holidays with cheer and unease and become a Christmas traditions that you go back to season after season. It's filled with stories, most of which have never been seen anywhere before. You don't want to miss it.

Nine ghost stories that capture the spirit of Christmas. The Christmas tree lights, the carol singers, and the shadows that wait out in the snow. Traditional ghost stories written in the true spirit of Christmas. Chilling tales with a twist that will kindle the true spirit of Christmas in your hearts. Ghosts that emerge from the snow, doors that eat you, spirits that beg you to do them a service. Perfect to listen to on a dark winter's night. This book will convince you that the dead do return, and they do so on Christmas Eve!

Short stories of Holiday Horrors to brighten and frighten your Christmas spirit.

The festive spirit of American holidays is twisted into nightmares. Each tale unravels the dark secrets hidden beneath the celebrations we cherish. As the calendar turns, so too do the fates of the characters, each drawn into a web of horror that forces them to confront their deepest fears. In this anthology, every holiday carries a warning: sometimes, the ghosts of our celebrations refuse to stay buried.