Christmas Horror

Here are five spooky stories to listen to near the fireplace. Sit back and relax with the Shiver and Fears first Christmas short tales!

Christmas needn't only be about good cheer. The audiobook includes four festive tales of the supernatural, apocalyptic, and blood-sucking variety - an antidote for anyone who occasionally finds Christmas overly sentimental or commercialized and likes to escape to somewhere darker.

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!

From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come 12 never-before-published stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena. With returning characters from the Essex Witch Museum series and a weirdly wonderful tale for each day of Christmas, these spooky stories are the perfect companion for long, dark winter nights.

Akira's plans are simple: write wedding invitations, bake Christmas cookies, and eat red meat. (The last surprises her, too.) But when Rose, the ghost who haunts her house, asks for a favor, Akira can't say no. Although she's faced danger before, even death, a toddler who doesn't like peanut-butter-and-jelly might be her worst nightmare.

Holly has a plan, and it doesn’t include the sexy ex-marine who enters the bakery looking for a job. With an unknown foe hunting her, and the people closest to her keeping secrets. Can she trust a man whose existence is nothing more than a myth? Dash Cascade is on the hunt for the man who assassinated his team. After weeks on the killer’s trail, the last person he expects to find is his mate or the trouble she’s connected to.

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.

Emily’s best friends, Laurel and Nicole, don’t believe in Santa Claus! That’s about to change. On a last-ditch effort to validate the big guy’s existence, Emily hides behind the Christmas tree to keep lookout and alert her friends when and if he arrives. Meanwhile, Satan’s vile grimps have invaded Michabo, ready to fill the children’s heads with hatred for the holiday.

Full of young man's bravado, a gentleman accepts a Christmas wager to spend the night in a notorious haunted house, number 90, located somewhere in the vicinity of Charleston's Battery in South Carolina. After an eventful night, he resolves to endure a second...but could it also be his last?

Beth Williams leads a lonely existence, going to work, then returning to her flat to watch TV, eat, and sleep – the same routine on repeat, day after day. It’s a loneliness she nurtures, finds comfort in, even, except at Christmas, a time of dread. Then comes an invite, an offer from an old friend, to join him for "The Damned Season" at his house on an island off the coast of Anglesey, for Christmas with a difference. Intrigued as well as desperate, Beth accepts, arriving there a few days before Christmas Eve. 

In the 1843 classic, Ebenezer Scrooge is cold-hearted old miser, bent on making a profit over people. In this revision of the holiday classic, Ebenezer Scrooge is a forever orphaned man, desperate to find a human connection. He spent the day burying his mentor in the ground and, now, just wants to lose himself in work.

A renovation. In the countryside. Just over an hour's train ride from London. An ideal family home. Sold unseen. At auction. Married couple Al and Liz Greenaway love London, but when they discover an impressive country property for sale. A fine house. Once. Solitary, romantic, isolated, and quiet. So quiet that, for the first time in years, Liz can hear her own thoughts as long buried memories emerge. And there's an echo in them, a whisper... For someone else in the house, memories are emerging too.

Ebenezer Scrooge, ricco uomo d’affari, avaro ed egoista, odia tutte le festività, specialmente il Natale. Il fantasma del suo ex-socio, gli preannuncia la visita di tre spiriti, quello del Natale Passato, quello del Natale Presente e, infine, quello del Natale Futuro. I tre spettri accompagnano Scrooge in un viaggio nel tempo - ieri, oggi e domani - che sarà per il protagonista un’occasione di riflessione sul senso della vita e sull’importanza degli affetti.

La storia dell’avaro Scrooge, visitato dagli spiriti, è stata riproposta più volte in rappresentazioni teatrali e cinematografiche, ma la sua versione originale, così come uscita dalla penna di uno dei più grandi romanzieri della storia, è insuperata. Un pezzo di bravura, e allo stesso tempo il manifesto della visione della vita di Dickens, fa magicamente sorgere dalle sue pagine lo spirito del Natale, con colori, suoni, profumi, e buoni sentimenti. Musiche tradizionali arrangiate da Ivan Genesio.

We Bleed Red & Green presents 12 chilling tales for the holidays from author Jeff C. Carter. Santa gets tough on the Naughty List, a shut-in becomes addicted to a mysterious snow globe, and a poor inventor must forge his escape from a deadly curse. See how the Christmas spirit haunts playgrounds, dive bars, desperate thieves, and jungle explorers.

Nicole couldn't be more nervous about shaking hands with Darla's mother and father. Her own family hasn't exactly been supportive. But on her way to their house in rural Maryland, she nearly collides with a barefoot old woman standing in the road. From there, strange things start to happen. A chase through the snow, a stone cottage in the woods, a raging fire. Will Nicole make it out alive?

In 1899, in the North Yorkshire market town of Thorpe Morton, a tragedy occurred; 59 people died at the market hall whilst celebrating Christmas Eve, many of them children. One hundred years on and the spirits of the deceased are restless still, 'haunting' the community, refusing to let them forget. In 1999, psychic investigators Theo Lawson and Ness Patterson are called in to help, sensing immediately on arrival how weighed down the town is. Quickly they discover there's no safe haven. The past taints everything.

It’s Christmas in the Chandler household, and as the party gather around the fire, their host Everard recalls a ghostly tale from the previous Christmas in the misty forests of Scotland.

Kris Kringle has awakened from his yearly slumber. What has passed by for him in the blink of an eye has been a year-long struggle for survival in the world of man as a plague tears through the masses turning everyday people into flesh-eating fiends. Santa has one night: one night to make a difference, one night to help man turn the tide against the undead. Will he succeed?

A Polish historian visiting Italy falls in love with a 16th-century femme fatale, who murdered a series of enthralled husbands and lovers. When he experiences visions of the beautiful Medea Da Carpi, it slowly turns his scholarly fascination into a fatal obsession.