Christmas Horror

From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love's disappointments Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through...

Nestled deep in the frozen wilderness, the family’s idyllic Christmas retreat was supposed to be a time for reconnection and peace. But when three eerie, sharp-toothed figures appear at their door during a raging snowstorm, the cabin becomes a blood-soaked battleground for survival. Trapped far from help and with no escape in sight, Clara and her family face a relentless nightmare. As the visitors shed their false civility, the family discovers the creatures’ hunger is as insatiable as their cruelty. What begins as a chilling encounter, spirals into a harrowing game of life and death.

Santa Claws by Andie J. Fessey is a blood-soaked holiday thriller to forever change the way you look at Christmas. In a bustling shopping mall, a towering robotic Santa Claus, touted as the cutting-edge centrepiece of holiday cheer, becomes a nightmare when a sinister malfunction turns it into a relentless killing machine. With its glowing red eyes, booming voice, and deadly metal claws, Santa does not just check who is naughty or nice, it punishes.

The Henderson family, eager to escape the pressures of city life, planned a perfect Christmas in the snow-covered wilderness. But from the moment they discover the mysterious box under the tree, strange and ominous occurrences cast a shadow over their cozy holiday plans. As the nights grow colder and longer, and the silver bell’s haunting chime fills the cabin, it becomes clear something dark lurks in the heart of the woods. The family’s dreams of a peaceful Christmas turn into a desperate struggle for survival as they are hunted by an ancient force bound to keep them silent forever.

Widely acknowledged as the master of the supernatural, M. R. James penned many of his classic ghost stories to be read aloud to friends, by candlelight, in his study on Christmas Eve. These five adaptations, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, perfectly capture the mood of nerve-jangling...

Picking up where the first book left off, Michael Carter sells the magical house on Festive Lane to a new and unsuspecting family, the Hills. A much different family nucleus than the Carters, Harry and Susan Hill, are dealing with a myriad of challenges brought on by the sudden custody of three stepchildren awarded to them by Susan's recently deceased sister, Carin.

It's Christmas Eve morning and everyone in the city of Detroit is gathered in eager anticipation (and not a little dread) of Santa's annual visit.

The Carters, a family looking to escape holiday chaos, arrive at a secluded cabin nestled deep within the snowy woods, eager for a peaceful Christmas. But as they settle into their rustic hideaway, the surrounding pines appear to draw nearer, bringing with them a foreboding silence and strange, inexplicable whispers in the night. Strange symbols, eerie voices, and unsettling encounters with the locals hint at secrets hidden within the forest, a place where time itself seems suspended and ancient rituals still hold sway.

These 25 poems range from the bizarre to the horrifying. If you enjoy listening to Christmas horror, check out these Christmas horror poems to add some scare to your holidays!

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.

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words. Whether it’s a long-lost returning soldier wondering how best to return to the arms of his family without too great a risk of shock... Or a prodigal son whose taken path has driven pain into his own and others hearts… These stories reveal much about the human condition.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the mall, rushed a worker, named Steve, who was sick of you all. From Doris to Karen, and that pest, Creepy Santa, Steve wanted to clock them with a big, glass decanter. With the help of an elf, her clothes quite revealing, Steve finished his shopping with much a mixed feeling. After a beer or two, and he’d bought all his presents, Steve went to a house with a marijuana essence. Along with his buddies, their names Dave and Spike, the three amigos partied with beer and ganja alike.

From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a...

Jessica Lockhart is in need of a live-in carer over the Christmas period; Isla Barrow is the woman who takes the job. After a fraught journey to reach her along remote country lanes, Isla arrives to find the old woman in distress, and the house strangely unnerving. With the weather hostile, no phone line or mobile signal, and her charge growing increasingly frail, Isla realizes death is waiting. And something else besides: vengeance.

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is perhaps the most famous ghost story of all. For nearly 200 years, this tale has singlehandedly extended the haunting season from autumn through winter, and ghost lovers everywhere are happy about that. Traditionally, A Christmas Carol is told and retold each year in every form from plays to movies and TV shows. But, originally, the tale was read aloud as folks sat by the hearth, drinking mulled cider or hot cocoa as they warmed their hands at the fireplace. Many of us first heard the tale as children.

Christmas in New Orleans—a city brimming with cheery jazz, red and green bulbs lighting the streets, the spicy aroma of gumbo, and the cold chill of spirits asking Santa for the gift of redemption. After a string of challenging cases, paranormal investigator Kimberly Wantland is looking forward to spending the holidays quietly with her friends in the Big Easy. But ghosts don’t rest at the Cardinal Hotel.

Christmas, the happiest time of year. Plum puddings, candy canes, carols by the fireside. But outside, the mist lies deep and still. Frost gnaws at your fingertips. Shadowy forms lurk in the evergreens. It’s the season for ghost stories.

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. “Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the...

From the award-winning author of Amatka and Jagannath—a fantastical tour de force about friendship, interdimensional theater, and a magical place where no one ages, except the young In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It’s a place where feasts...

Allen DeShawn believes his monster-hunting days ended five years ago after he killed the werewolf. Now it’s December 1994 and he’s itching for his high school’s Christmas Break and goofing off with his new friends. But when attractive girls go missing and Allen stumbles on the hottest teacher in school half-dead outside her house, he suspects something bad is going around and it isn’t the flu.