HOLIDAY HORRORS

Every holiday is a doorway. Once a year, it opens.Some fears belong to the season - the thing in the dark on Halloween, the uninvited guest at Thanksgiving, the snow that falls the wrong color at Christmas. In Seasons of Fear, six holidays become six nightmares: a year of horror you can step into any month, any mood, any time.A wolf-pack of cousins takes the back road home from a Halloween party and strikes something that shouldn’t still be alive. The nearest town welcomes them with open arms - and no intention of ever letting them leave. [Creature survival horror]A matriarch gathers her fractured family for one last Thanksgiving. An old friend arrives bearing a gift that was never meant to be poured - and by the time anyone realizes what’s in the wine, the table is already set. [Domestic ritual horror]An archaeologist cracks a forbidden text and learns the secret the Vatican has guarded for two thousand years: that Christmas belief is a harvest, and the harvesters are coming for the winter solstice. The snow is about to fall red. [Cosmic horror]In the Utah desert, the New Year’s fireworks wake what sleeps beneath the sage. The old families know the rules for the thin places - don’t whistle after midnight, don’t follow the lights, and if the hills go quiet, get inside. At 12:12 a.m., the hills go quiet. [Folk horror]A community organizer cut down in the crossfire of an Atlanta boulevard discovers that death is not the end of his work. He can’t move a chair anymore - but he can move a mind. [Urban supernatural revenge]She said she’d meet him at the restaurant on Valentine’s Day. He drove eight hours and maxed a credit card to be there. She never existed - and the boy who invented her has thirty more names on his list. [Psychological thriller]Six holidays. Six ways to be afraid. Pick your season - or read them all and discover that the scariest day of the year is whichever one you’re living.Holiday Horrors: Seasons of Fear, Volume One - the debut anthology from T. Lindsey-B.