Enjoy eight Christmas-themed horror flash fictions that’ll make you see Christmas differently this year. In this collection, you’ll find the following spooky tales: A woman meets her boyfriend’s parents for the first time and unknowingly brings the perfect Christmas gift. A young man learns that no wish, not even a Christmas one, comes without consequences. A young couple discovers that a Christmas Instagram challenge can be fatal. A real Christmas tree doesn’t give a family the perfect Christmas they hoped for. Santa and his reindeers are missing. And when Mrs Claus tracks them down, what she discovers is worse than she could ever have imagined. A woman discovers the real meaning behind the nickname her boyfriend calls her when she visits his home for the first time. A young boy gets more than he bargained for when he attacks an intruder on Christmas Eve. A woman has an idea to kill her boss with poisoned mince pies, but her plan doesn’t give her the results she was expecting. The characters in this collection are all different, but they have one thing that unites them: they all learn that not everyone has a Merry Christmas; some have a Merry Dreadmas.

A Merry Scary Christmas is a compilation of Christmas stories with a twist. In some cases very twisted. There are poems, short stories, flash fiction and more written by a collection of eclectic writers from all walks of life. These stories will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you question your thoughts and feelings about the most popular holiday in the world. Enjoy the journey through the minds of some of the most interesting writers you may have never heard of and some you may know well.

A sneaky snow monster is out to spoil everyone's holiday cheer. How ho-ho-horrible! Can the kids from Mystery, Inc. solve the coolest case ever?

A Merry Scary Christmas is a compilation of Christmas stories with a twist. In some cases very twisted. There are poems, short stories, flash fiction and more written by a collection of eclectic writers from all walks of life. These stories will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you question your thoughts and feelings about the most popular holiday in the world. Enjoy the journey through the minds of some of the most interesting writers you may have never heard of and some you may know well.

This Christmas, e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales: Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki) Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James) The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Ghost's Touch (Fergus Hume) Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip) A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson) Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O'Connor) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs) The Abbot's Ghost; or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton) Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen) The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker) Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome) The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat) Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford) The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens) The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie) The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald) The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy) Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker) At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis) Between the Lights (E. F. Benson) Transition (Algernon Blackwood) The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood)

The holidays are sometimes predictable. The name, Santa everywhere we forgot about the one creature hiding in his shadow. The one being that would come if one of us dared walk the beaten paths of naughtiness... Krampus is back, and so we wish you a Merry Fright!Krampus Korps by Aida JacobsKrampus has gone rogue, and the fate of Christmas hangs in the balance. Can the now defunct Krampus Korps, the elite team that had once been trained for the sole purpose of keeping Krampus in line, rally in time?Can Christmas be saved?Krampusnaught by Kendra HaleEvery knows the rules of Christmas, good gets treated with kindness while badness gets the proverbial coal. Krampusnaught works on the opposite rule set. Good little ones get ignored while the bad ones get their just reward; some even get an exclusive one way trip. Krampus is their guide and ride as they make their journey to hell. But there are times where the rules are blurred, shifted even. This Krampusnaught things are a little different and one soul is about to be put on trial in an event that only happens once every few hundred years. My Brother's Keeper by Winter LawrenceOn a cold, dark night in Colorado, Brett Ellington learns the hard way that hosting a séance on the 5th of December isn't a good idea. There are ghosts to contend with--like dead brothers who give cryptic advice, and there's ZoZo too, the demon king of the Ouija board. He's harder to pin down, and rumor has it that he's a prankster, so Brett can't tell if he's the only spirit in the house or if there's something else lurking on the roof. As the night draws on though, and the sounds of rattling chains and jingle bells fill the chimney, Brett begins to wonder if ZoZo isn't the only thing that's come to town that night--there's something else too, something far darker and much less merrier than a couple of angry ghosts.Creating Enemies by Vanessa RossThis is a prequel to the Royal's Light by Vanessa Ross. Discover the General's motivation and his plans for the Fiann Company. The General wants revenge, while Krampus wants his mother's approval. Both are known for their evil but how far will they go to achieve their goals. This story includes graphic language and visual sexual encounters not appropriate for the faint of heart. Winter Goat Man by A. WayneMila inherits an old stone house in a secluded village in the Mont La Bellerose county. Along with both her best friends, she moves in only to find out the house has the darkest past one home can have. So close to the holidays, a haunting overtaking her new property, Mila and her friends swear to find the one creature leaving nothing but corpses behind him.Krampus Checklist by Dora EsquivelSomeone is taking shifter and human children away in from their homes. The intruder leaves a few intriguing clues, but nothing to help the shifter families find their loved ones. Marcos wanted to spend his Christmas vacation with his long-time crush Andreas, not expecting to get sidelined by his brother Manuel the alpha of his pack to take care of his nephew Pepe. On the hunt for a Christmas tree, Marcos, Andreas, and Pepe find themselves being hunted by this creature. The thing that haunts them.A Krampus Visit by L.A. MacielSince I as three, I would visit my eccentric uncle for the holidays. He held the title as town Santa very dear to his heart, much to my chagrin. So, of course, I grew up with him telling me stories about elves and jolly Ol' Saint Nick. But, he also told me tales of a scary creature, one that most people have forgotten. Krampus. This is my story about my visit from Krampus... A Krampus visit