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Featuring stories by Isla Veu, Lauren Mitchell, MJ Huntsgood, Jennifer R. Povey, Edward Rooke, Evan Baughfman, Colleen Bays, Julia Rajagopalan, Moira Kurtin, Nicholas Waller, Elissa Smith, Heath, Kate Autio, Tom Salem, Milanka Šulejić, Vic Kerry, Marcelo P. Garnet, Dustin Putman, Sally Darling, Daniel Pajkurich, Hugh Lessig, Wendy Wheeler, Cris Hyde, Marshall Alessi, and David Greske.

The holidays were never meant to be safe.

In the longest nights of winter, old traditions stir, familiar songs turn strange, and the warmth of home hides something waiting just beyond the firelight.

Across these pages, holiday rituals become bargains, gifts come with terrible prices, and the dead are not always willing to stay gone.

Yuletide: A Very Black Winter gathers twenty-five tales of holiday and winter horror, spanning folklore, supernatural dread, grotesque pulp, dark comedy, psychological terror, and the strange things that gather around Christmas when the nights grow long.

Cruel, strange, and unsettling, these stories may make you look twice at the empty chair, the tracks outside your door, or that sound coming from somewhere inside the walls.

This year, keep the home fire burning.