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Narrated by:
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Charles Constant
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Teri Schnaubelt
About this listen
Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from best-selling, acclaimed authors, including Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Smith, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Maberry, Kelley Armstrong, and Josh Malerman.
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.
Best-selling 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.
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,562
Sally has recently left an unfulfilling job to volunteer at a living history museum, where she is assigned to the Death House. Every day, she dons Victorian mourning garb and describes traditional funeral services to tourists. It sounds depressing as hell, but for Sally, it’s less depressing than her tepid marriage to her childhood sweetheart. This becomes all too clear when she accidentally travels through time and space to a liminal world where the ghosts of the living history museum haunt its grounds. There, she meets and falls hard for Victorian-era pretty boy Nathaniel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fresh and twisty!
- By Sarah Carter on 07-08-21
By: Rachel Harrison
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Experimental Film
- By: Gemma Files
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4 out of 5 stars 192
Fired at almost the same time as her son, Clark, is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, former film critic turned teacher Lois Cairns is caught in a depressive downward spiral, convinced she's a failure who's spent half her adult life writing about other people's dreams without ever seeing any of her own come true.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Smartly done and well written.
- By Bill on 06-27-17
By: Gemma Files
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Growing Up Dead in Texas
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Joey Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that it's still hard to get a straight answer about. A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texas's cotton. Stephen Graham Jones was 12 that year. What he remembers best, what's stuck with him all this time, is that nobody ever came forward to claim that destruction. And nobody was ever caught. Greenwood just leaned forward, pretending that the fire had never happened.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How actual stories unfold
- By Georgia on 02-12-21
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Ghostwritten
- By: Ronald Malfi
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 256
Four brand-new horror novellas all about books, stories, manuscripts—the written word has never had sharper teeth. In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers' Last Ride. In This Book Belongs to Olo, a lonely child has dangerous control over an usual pop-up book. A choose-your-own adventure game spirals into an uncanny reality in The Story. Full of creepy suspense, these collected novellas are perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen King, and Joe Hill.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Why do they always harm cats????
- By Matthew Davis on 04-13-23
By: Ronald Malfi
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12 Deaths of Christmas
- By: Paul Sating
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story1.5 out of 5 stars 2
12 short stories of terror. Demons from hell. Gods and Devils. Unspeakable monstrosities. Humans with a taste for flesh. An upscale clothing store in the middle of New York City that offers its customers more than they bargained for. A prodigal son returns home for his aunt’s funeral, only to discover that an ancient entity awaits. A town shelters against the first snow, and the evil it brings. A mad king. A hired assassin. A world in the balance and an eternal force manipulating all of them. And seven other tales of horror that will forever change the way you experience the holiday ...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not an enjoyable listen
- By Kate 33 on 12-10-24
By: Paul Sating
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The Creeper
- By: A.M. Shine
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 598
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 554
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Story4 out of 5 stars 554
Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen—until they arrive. The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the locals, only wary looks and whispers. The villagers lock down their homes at sundown. A nameless fear stalks the streets. Nobody will talk—nobody except one little girl. Her story strikes dread into the hearts of the newcomers. Three times you see him. Each night he comes closer.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I don’t understand
- By Bohemian Blonde on 02-13-23
By: A.M. Shine
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The Writhing
- By: Abe Moss
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
Alex watches from her bedroom window as the small, secluded town of Amberton sleeps: a bright, pleasant town with a dark, disturbing secret. Helen, her foster mother, is gone all hours of the night with no explanation. The neighbors, always friendly, always smiling, are also always watching. They know something Alex doesn't. Something she shouldn't....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Abe Moss is the Real Thing
- By Michael on 01-02-21
By: Abe Moss
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Hex Life
- Wicked New Tales of Witchery
- By: Christopher Golden - editor, Rachel Autumn Deering - editor
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery will take the classic tropes of tales of witchcraft and infuse them with fresh, feminist perspective and present-day concerns - even if they're set in the past. These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions. Even the kind hostess with the candy cottage thought of herself as the hero of her own story. After all, a woman's gotta eat.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good read
- By diana d bess on 07-19-20
By: Christopher Golden - editor, and others
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Devil's Creek
- By: Todd Keisling
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4 out of 5 stars 168
About 15 miles west of Stauford, Kentucky, lies Devil's Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord's Church of Holy Voices - a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god. And like most legends, there's truth buried among the roots and bones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cults, Monsters, Small-town Weirdoes and their Persecutors... it's Perfect
- By Aaron AuBuchon on 02-09-24
By: Todd Keisling
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Sparrow Hill Road
- Ghost Stories, Book 1
- By: Seanan McGuire
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 440
Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross - a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn't ask Rose what she thought of the idea. It's been more than sixty years since that night, and she's still sixteen, and she's still running. It's been more than sixty years since that night, and she's still sixteen, and she's still running.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Series of Interconnected Stories
- By Sires on 05-25-14
By: Seanan McGuire
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The Girl from Rawblood
- A Novel
- By: Catriona Ward
- Narrated by: Liz Pearce, Steven Crossley, John Keating, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 78
In 1910, 11-year-old Iris Villarca lives with her father at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor. Iris and her father are the last of their name. The Villarcas always die young, bloodily. Iris knows it's because of a congenital disease that means she must be strictly isolated. Papa told her so. Forbidden to speak to other children or the servants, denied her one friend, Iris grows up in solitude. But she reads books. And one sunlit autumn day, beside her mother's grave, she forces the truth from her father. The disease is biologically impossible. A lie to cover a darker secret.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I have no idea what this was about
- By Rachel on 11-11-21
By: Catriona Ward
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Night of the Mannequins
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 214
One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until is starts killing. Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He'll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. He'll kill as many people as he needs to so he can save the day. That's the thing about heroes - sometimes you have to become a monster first.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sad that it ended
- By Jason on 03-12-21
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Lullaby
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,676
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,224
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,222
New York Times best-selling author of Fight Club, which was adapted into a major motion picture, Chuck Palahniuk offers a haunting tale. Winner of the Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Palahniuk is one of the rare literary geniuses who has been able to bridge the gap between a cult following and commercial success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Palahniuk's New Hit
- By RockyToTheMoon on 01-12-05
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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A Night in the Lonesome October
- By: Roger Zelazny
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 465
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 464
Loyally accompanying a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London, good dog Snuff is busy helping his master collect the grisly ingredients needed for an unearthly rite that will take place not long after the death of the moon. But Snuff and his master are not alone. All manner of participants, both human and not, are gathering with their ancient tools and their animal familiars in preparation for the dread night.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So happy this is finally on Audible!
- By Shannon GC on 08-23-22
By: Roger Zelazny
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The Big Blow
- By: Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historical Fiction at It's Finest
- By wildbillhagy on 05-07-25
By: Joe R. Lansdale
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The Croning
- By: Laird Barron
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 554
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 503
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Story4 out of 5 stars 503
Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults, and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us.... Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly 80 years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Writer - Good story - VERY Wrong Reader,
- By Old Man Parker on 10-17-12
By: Laird Barron
Great narration to creepy tales
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Merry Christmas
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Great stories
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All in all I enjoyed listening to this audiobook.
Interesting
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A collection of Christmas horrors from some of the leading names in the genre. These were certainly more along the lines of what I was looking for compared to Christmas and Other Horrors, but still had a mix of Christmas and holiday traditions in it, making it somewhat similar.
As is usually true with me, Josh Malerman’s short was a particular standout. TENETS features a group of college friends meeting up for the holiday, but one friend brings someone with them that has a shaky past. Another standout was THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE CHRISTMAS HOTEL by Joe R. Lansdale. An old hotel, now derelict, but two friends remember the parties of old and one particular guest that stood out—a unique and creepy Christmas hunting. And lastly THE HANGMAN’S BRIDE by Sarah Pinborough was a mix of haunting and the supernatural, which to me still felt somehow A Christmas Carol-y.
Several of the other stories I personally could have done without, but that seems to be the way I lean on these big anthologies. Still, I’m glad I picked this one up when I did. While again, not exactly what I was looking for, another Christmas read down.
Christmas horror
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loved it!
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A few good stories.
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3 Stars is being generous
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A bit forced but fun
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Everything is there, the grim, the sad, the hopeful, and the joyous . Just like the season is in real life for so many of us. A great choice for your holiday list. Enjoy! 😊
Buy this one!
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