Season's Creepings: Tales of Holiday Horror
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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree... what lurks among thy branches... Christmas can be the most wonderful time of the year. Candy canes and hot cocoa. Snowmen and sleigh rides. The love and hope that the Nativity brings. Cold milk and warm cookies for Santa. Family, friends, and the cheerful laughter of children. But, beneath the festive wrapping paper and the gleam and glitter of the lights and tinsel, things less jubilant may lie in wait. The holiday season can bring love, peace, and benevolence... but it may also spawn a darkness lurking amid the shadowy boughs of the Christmas tree, ornaments that should have never seen the light of day, let along hung on festive branches, and bones that jingle and dance, in search of Santa's crimson suit... and the flesh that resides within. In this collection of harrowing holiday tales, Ronald Kelly leaves ten frightful and horrific gifts in the Christmas stockings that hang from the mantle of your cheerful fireplace. Ghastly and gruesome presents that slowly unwrap and burst into life while you are tucked, snug and warm, in your bed and take on nightmarish form in the icy winter hours of Christmas Eve, turning comfort and joy into terror and dread. Stories included in this collection: Jingle Bones The Skating Pond Depravity Road Heirlooms The Winds Within Then Came a Woodsman As for Me, My Little Brain Beneath the Branches Papa's Exile The Peddler's Journey
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4.5 stars
Y'all are probably looking at this cover/title thinking this isn't something she would usually read, and you would be correct, but this year I've been trying to step out of my comfort zone a little and read things I wouldn't typically read. When Destiny asked if I wanted to buddy read this one with her, I said yes of course. I didn't go in with any expectations, but I was blown away by this collection of short stories. This is my first book by this author, and it definitely won't be my last. This is a collection of 10 short stories and with the exception of a couple they were all amazing. You have some that didn't feel so much like horror but were still really good. There was one that went completely over my head, one I felt like I needed more from and one that was a little less unbelievable but still good. The rest of them were really good and had me on the edge of my seat wanting to know what was going to happen. Some of them were more on the cute side than horror but still so good and then of course there were some true horror ones. Overall, I really enjoyed this collection of short stories, and I think it's the best one I have ever read.
