A group of motorists become stranded on a lonely stretch of highway during a Christmas Eve blizzard and fight for survival against a twisted toymaker.

A hilariously deranged tale of Santa, fruitcakes, angels, and Kung Fu: An angel is sent to Earth to grant the wish of a boy—and accidently causes the town to fall prey to all the zombies from the nearby cemetery.

From USA Today bestseller L.A. Detwiler comes a disturbing paranormal horror novel that will bring hell to the holidays and chilling fear to the festivities.

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Hogfather is chock-full of supernatural figureheads—including Death, the Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost. And—oh, yeah—the Discworld version of Santa Claus. Said the author, “We are meddling with dark magic at the dark time of the year.”

Want a look at the scary side of Christmas? From Krampus and ghosts to zombies and killers, these anthologies offer dozens of authors raising a lot of questions about the season…

A Sherlock Holmes novel from the bestselling author of “The Age of Odin” and the Firefly novel “Big Damn Hero.” “There’s a literary tradition going back to Victorian times of equating Christmas with ghosts…”

The Literary Life Podcast talked with Tananarive Due about the scripted drama show Horror Noire, as well as about her latest novel, The Between. You can listen to the whole podcast interview here.

The second issue of magazine Nightmare Abbey offers terror tales by writers like Steve Duffy, Helen Grant and David Surface, plus explores the impact of Theodore Sturgeon’s “It.”

“I find most vampire novels soooooooooo disappointing…” The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

Acclaimed author and artist Brom raised pulse rates with his grim reimagining of the Peter Pan legend. For an encore, he tinkers darkly with the beloved mythology of Santa Claus.

This Christmas won’t be cheerful. It’ll be more like “Evil Dead” meets “Christmas Vacation.” The Wallace family’s annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails.

It is winter at Nideck Point and for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other. “It was meant to be a Christmas book,” Rice said. “I thought, 'I want to do Christmas with the werewolf.'“

The author of the Southern Vampire Sookie Stackhouse series has returned to bookshelves with the latest title in her Gunnie Rose series. Find out info on all the books in the whole series.

What is Charlaine Harris writing now? The author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels has a brand-new book. Find out more, including whether she'll be connecting with readers.

Who wrote the Vampire Diaries books? And when did the Vampire Diaries books come out? The novels were written by more than one person, and we don’t even know all the names.

The Vampire Diaries is a YA vampire fiction series of novels created by L.J. Smith. The author explains why her fiction includes strong female characters…

Tanya Huff’s classic urban fantasy series The Blood Books center around mysteries with a supernatural slant, from demons, to werewolves, to mummies. Plus books from the Smoke spinoff series…

With propulsive momentum, bone-chilling scares, and dark meditations on the weight of history, this Southern horror will make you think twice about opening doors to the unknown.

“A strange and wondrous re-imagining of noir.” In The Dawnhounds, a murdered police officer is brought back to life and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil…

Entering the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami’s wild imagination, The Strange Library is a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.