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.
I received this novel for free from the publisher through Netgalley for a review. Overall, I enjoyed this collection of Christmas themed short stories. Several of the authors involved are ones that I have read before and a few were new to me but I will be looking in to their backlists for sure now. I thought that it was a good mixture of different kinds of stories, some of them were better then others in my opinion, but it was a quick read that kept my attention and the topic of Christmas horror stories was newer to me and one that I enjoyed.
