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Ho Ho Ho (macabre minima) Hardcover – November 10, 2023
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Dive into a realm of holiday horror with this anthology of Christmas tales that explore the darkest corners of the festive season.
Amidst the jingles and twinkling lights, these stories unveil chilling secrets and sinister mysteries.
Experience a Christmas Eve like no other, where ancient rituals turn malevolent and beloved traditions take a macabre turn. Meet carollers with dark intentions, Santa Claus with a nightmarish twist, and familiar icons transformed into grotesque spectres.
These are not your typical heartwarming tales; they are chilling narratives that cast a shadow over the holiday spirit. Venture into a world where the merry and the macabre collide, redefining your holiday season in just one-hundred-word festive bites.
- Print length328 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 10, 2023
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.01 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-13979-8867283216
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Product details
- ASIN : B0CN4HZK5P
- Publisher : Independently published (November 10, 2023)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 328 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8867283216
- Item Weight : 1.09 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.01 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,785,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15,264 in Holiday Fiction (Books)
- #26,854 in Folklore (Books)
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About the authors
After spending many years at sea, Ross Baxter now concentrates on writing fiction. His published material specialises primarily on horror and Sci-fi, but he also has a wide spectrum of fiction published on a number of varied US and UK online sites. In April 2014 he got the second best fiction award from Mashstories, and in December 2014 won the Horror Novel Reviews.com best short creation story.
Married to a Norwegian and with two Anglo-Viking kids, Ross now lives in Derby, England.
He has three stories appearing in print anthologies in mid-2020.
http://rossbaxter.wordpress.com/
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Iseult Murphy started writing at a young age, entertaining her family with magazines that she wrote and illustrated as a child. In her teens, she won several local and national short story competitions, including three time overall winner of the RDS Young Science Writers competition, and had work placed in international writing competitions such as the BBC Wildlife Poetry competition.
Iseult is drawn to horror, fantasy and science fiction, as she feels that the most difficult aspects of life can be best explored through the lens of speculative fiction.
She currently resides on the east coast of Ireland. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys reading, art and spending time with her animals.
Bernardo is primarily a filmmaker. His formal filmmaking education was received at Fairleigh-Dickinson University as well as Long Island University - C.W. Post. His first film, "Suffer the Little Children," has won 4 awards and has been officially selected by 13 festivals worldwide (www.sufferproductions.com). Bernardo has also directed and edited seven short films, spanning many genres, at Stonestreet Studios an affiliate studio of NYU. He was selected to direct a staged reading of a screenplay for the HotINK reading series and has directed staged readings of feature-length screenplays and plays he has written.
Bernardo's experience includes feature film and short film editing, and well as television commercial copy-writing, direction and editing.
Bernardo has also branched out into the world of theatre, including a stage adaptation of "Peter and the Wolf" he authored, which premiered as part of the Pillow Play series, while another children's play he wrote, "The Walled City," premiered in the same series. He has also written two other short plays one "Dementia Unlimited" participated in the Chrysalis One-Act Festival winning 4 awards and "The Grasshopper Child," which was selected for the First Draft Playwright's Circle.
Bernardo most recently wrote and directed the award-winning short film "The Watermelon Wagon Killer," and published his premier novella, "The Isle of Helyr." Bernardo is currently in pre-production on the original horror feature "All Hallows' Eve."
He has a few more fiction and non-fiction offerings in the works.
You can follow Bernardo on:
Twitter: @bernardovillela
Youtube: www.youtube.com/bernardoproductions
and read his movie blog at: http://www.themovierat.com
or visit his production company's page:
www.miller-villela.com
S. C. Morgan lives outside of Toronto, Ontario with his wife, three kids and a dog, and spends the daylight working for a big bank’s Marketing Dept and the night time putting pen to paper. His short story Watch Your Step appeared in the Unleashed: Monsters Vs Zombies Anthology and will have three stories appear in the Forgotten Ones: Drabbles of Myth and Legend, along with a further four stories appearing in the Phantoms in the Moonlight Halloween Anthology. For more information about S. C. Morgan’s stories and reviews, you can follow him on Twitter at @SCMorganAuthor and #SCMorganReviews.
Pauline Yates is an award-winning author of horror, science fiction and poetry based in Queensland, Australia. Learn more at pauline yates dot com.
My name is Andrew Kurtz and I am a horror author.
I have not published any novels as of yet, but am in numerous anthologies, which you can view by going to my author link.
As a child I have loved horror, whether it was watching a horror film or reading horror literature.
I am a comic book collector and have an extensive library of book, mainly horror and science fiction.
If you ask me what my favorite horror film is, I can not answer because there are so many that I love.
Jason Voorhees murders at CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE, Michael Myers slaughters in HADDONFIELD, Freddy Kruger causes nightmares on ELM STREET, and I write horror short stories.
My vampires do not drink blood, they devour it. The werewolves in my stories do not resemble four legged dogs, but bipedal monstrosities that have an undying bloodlust during the full moon.
If you are looking for happy endings then do not read my stories because will be disappointed.
My characters die in the most gory manner possible and whether the are new born infants or 90 year old does not matter.
We all love dogs and cats. In my stories they are torn to pieces while still alive.
My human monsters are not who they seem to be because my tales of terror are full of twists and turns.
Evan Baughfman works in a very scary place: a middle school! (He’s a teacher.) He writes all genres, but horror is where he’s most comfortable. His horror fiction has been published in numerous anthologies, including titles from No Bad Books Press, Critical Blast Publishing, Improbable Press, and Grinning Skull Press. Evan has penned a collection of 13 short scary stories titled THE EMACIATED MAN AND OTHER TERRIFYING TALES FROM POE MIDDLE SCHOOL, published by Thurston Howl Publications. His spooky novella, VANISHING OF THE 7TH GRADE, is now available from D&T Publishing. D&T has also published Evan's first full-length novel, BAD FOR YOUR TEETH. Evan is also the co-author of the choose-your-own-adventure-style horror/fantasy novella, TRY NOT TO DIE IN A DARK FAIRY TALE, alongside Mark Tullius.
Evan has also adapted a number of his short prose works into screenplays, of which "The Tell-Tale Art," “A Perfect Circle,” and “The Creaky Door” have won awards in various film festival competitions.
Additionally, much of Evan's writing success has been as a playwright. He’s had many different plays produced across the globe. Evan is a playwriting member of PlayGround-L.A., as well as a company member with Force of Nature Productions. His children's play, “R.O.M.3.O. and Julia” (Romeo and Juliet with robots) has been published in PLAYS Magazine. His play for young adults, “Lipstick and Heroics,” is available through YouthPLAYS, as is Evan's all-ages script, "Sprout Wants Out." In addition, his middle grade play, "Percy Pangolin Wants to Go Viral," is published by Heuer Publishing. Heuer has also published Evan's plays, "Bookworm's Dilemma," "The Not-So-Haunted Auditorium," "A Taste of Amontillado" (an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado") and his script, "Untragically Ever After." Next Stage Press has published Evan's horror-plays-for teens, "Fear Pressure" and "The Dodo Challenge," as well as his one-act satire of American public education, "F is For."
Online theater education resource, Drama Notebook, has added many of Evan’s children’s plays to its catalog. His plays can also be found at New Play Exchange.
S Jade Path is an author of short fiction and a creator of dark poetry. She has had a life-long obsession with crawling into the depths of the psyche and forging shadows into words. Her work parallels this penchant for delving into the fantastical and strolling amongst demons.
https://linktr.ee/SJadePath
Josh is a writer, bookseller, and graphic designer. A writer and reader of genre fiction for adults and young adults, he is active in the Colorado writing community, previously serving in key volunteer positions for several writing groups. His life is filled with words professionally and recreationally, so if he's not writing or reading you're likely to find him at author events, science fiction conventions, writing conferences, or out in nature brainstorming his next novel. His fiction has been published by Pikes Peak Writers, Black Hare Press, and more. He received a Silver Honorable Mention in Q4 of the 2020 Writers of the Future Contest.
Lisa H. Owens, a retired Delta Airlines flight attendant and former syndicated monthly humorist columnist, resides in North Texas with two rescue dogs and a long-suffering air plant named Airy Potter (AKA, Claw, may he rest in peace). She began writing in earnest at the age of 56. Her first published story was a real-life horror about the time she was nearly abducted by Ted Bundy while her family managed a shady motel in Pensacola Florida in 1978.
Her stories and poems have been published in magazines and anthologies by Coping Magazine, Sweetycat Press, Owl Canyon Press, Zombie Works, Grinning Skull, Stone Pony Press, Barrio Blues Press, Clarendon House Publications, Gypsum Sound Tales, Black Ink Fiction, Black Hare Press, Savage Realms Press, Heavenly Flower Publishing, Iron Faerie Publishing, Joe Pawlowski Publishing, Mackenzie Press, Weird Christmas, The Poets’ Lounge, House of Loki and CultureCult Magazine & Press.
Her award-winning work is also featured online by Globe Soup, Black Hare Press’ Dark Moments, Black Ink Fiction, The Drabble, 100-Word Story, 101 Words, The World of Myth Magazine, Beneath the Surface News, Spillwords, WOW! (Women on Writing), International Lockdown Journal, Horror Tree’s Dark Nowhere Series, Short Story Avenue, The NZ Dream, Short Story Town, Coping Magazine and narrated on Scare You to Sleep, Weird Christmas Podcast, Creepy Pod, World of Myth Bits and in The Poet’s Lounge—a channel on YouTube
Lisa writes multiple genres, recently discovering a new audience for her odd combination of mild horror and humor: children and young adults. Her stories are typically inspired by true events, often including private jokes, family secrets and nicknames
Corinne Pollard is a disabled writer of Horror, Fantasy and Sci-fi. She graduated with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and lives in Yorkshire, UK where she enjoys wandering graveyards and bookshops. Music is her haven, especially metal, which she listens to while writing, and sometimes she even sings along.
Join her dark world on twitter, instagram and threads: @CorinnePWriter
Scotty Sarafian is a Florida-born writer who grew up in Dublin, Ireland and Wilmington, Delaware. His work has been published by Coffin Bell, Pulp Modern Flash, Ghost Orchid Press (A Very Ghostly Christmas), Neon Hemlock (Opulent Syntax: Irish Speculative Fiction), Black Hare Press, and more. He lives in Dublin.
Crystal N. Ramos lives with her husband and two children in Georgia. She has won the Maggie Award for Excellence in Prepublished Romantic Fiction twice and has an MA in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University. Some of her shorter work has appeared in Rescued Hearts: A Hidden Acres Anthology, Black Hare Press: Year Four, and The Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review. In her imaginary spare time, she likes to knit, cross-stitch, and play Minecraft.
Rosetta Yorke is a North Yorkshire (UK) author who writes time travel, horror, and Gothic romance short stories and drabbles. She traces her love of all things dark back to her archaeological days spent coaxing slumbering skeletons free from centuries-old graves in a race against time before the earthen side walls crumbled in on her, or municipal contractors redeveloped the site.
Lene MacLeod is a Canadian writer of dark fiction, quiet horror, and suspense.
Tiff Parker is a spooky writer of cats, magic and the paranormal. She was inspired to write about cats after the passing of her beloved Chai.
She has created memories around the world. From feeding pumpkins to an elderly elephant in Thailand, venturing through the home of Frida Kahlo, motorbiking in Vietnam, and finding the Big 5 in Kenya.
She lives in a woodland paradise outside of Pittsburgh with seven cats, a turtle and her amazing husband.
Her many loves include traveling, camping, treasure hunting, chanting, reading, gardening, fall, learning the ukulele and meditating by her favorite tree.
Her pen name is Spooky Tata.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024What's not to love about Christmas time, with its swell jingle bells and partridges in pear trees? Yikes! I loved this collection of mini-horrors and will never look at Santa and his tiny reindeer or gingerbread men with a snuggly feeling of warmth in my heart again. If you're a fan of Christmas and a fan of horror, this tomb of stories is for you, my friend.🧟♀️🎄🧟♂️
- Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2023This is a collection of very short stories. Of not your normal Christmas stories. You better watch out, you better not cry....
- Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2023I have some stories in this book but I wanted to read it because I love reading short story collections. There are so many good stories in this book. My favorite one is the last one! I liked how different cultures and different holidays were written about. There’s something for everyone in this book!