As you sit warm and cozy in your chair by the fire, comforted by the pretty lights and decorations of your holy nights, a chill runs up your spine. Part of you knows that the things that creep in the night and stalk your souls take no holiday. Indeed, as members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Horror Writer’s Association are here to remind you with twenty dark tales and four eerie poems, at this time of the year, many terrors lie just beneath the tinsel. They bring a special kind of fear that can only be found in The Winter Horror Days. The Christmas Spirit Lisa Morton

In the Dead of Winter K. A. Opperman

Mother Night Elise Forier Edie

The Eve Sirens Lauren Candia

about Christmas ‘78 David Ghilardi
Crying Wolf Kate Maruyama

Choking Hazard Michael Paul Gonzalez

Cursed by Saint Basil Kate Jonez
Witch Sisters Sean Patrick Traver
A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Christmas Yet to Come Kevin Wetmore

Black Coal David Blake Lucarelli
P tisserie du Diable Eric J. Guignard

Dread of Winter Dreams of Summer Janet Joyce Holden

The Sun Robin Morris

Krampus Comes to Town Robert Payne Cabeen

Showdown in Beverly Hills Hal Bodner

The Quiet Christmas Tree Tracy L. Carbone

Shamash Xach Fromson
An Ugly Resurrection The Behrg
The Scary Neighbor Ian Welke

Santa Christ and the Xmas Miracle Terry M. West & Regina West
Winter Witch Ashley Dioses

The Fifty-Eighth Item Kathryn McGee

…And Eight Rabid Pigs David Gerrold