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Christmas Horror Stories: Start Here

Choose your next Christmas nightmare.

A familiar holiday can turn frightening in a single moment: a last-minute present comes with a curse, an unexpected visitor needs shelter, or the Santa at the shop has a very different naughty list. This Weekly Spooky Christmas listening guide brings together individual horror stories and complete long-form readings from the archive. Start with the twelve-story sampler below, or choose a collection built around the kind of scare you want.

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Choose your Christmas horror collection

Twelve Christmas horror stories to start with

  1. Milk, Cookies, and Krampus: A Christmas Horror Story of Folklore, Family… and a Very Bad Dog

    A Christmas Eve blizzard brings a threatening sleigh and skeletal reindeer to the Donnerly farm when a milk-and-cookies tradition goes wrong. About 46 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  2. The Naughty Claus: Killer Santa Christmas Horror Story

    A last-minute Christmas Eve shopping trip puts Allison in the path of a filthy Santa carrying a stolen Naughty List. About 42 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  3. All I Want for Christmas... Is My Mother to Stop Haunting Me! — A Skeleton Possession Nightmare

    A Christmas-obsessed mother returns after death, turning a giant decorative skeleton into the holiday guest her family cannot escape. About 43 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  4. Black Christmas: A Cursed Snow Globe Christmas Horror Story

    A struggling newsboy discovers a snow globe that grants relief from his troubles while demanding an increasingly sinister price. About 60 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  5. Home for Christmas

    A stranger seeks shelter at Blackoaks Boarding School during a Christmas blizzard, bringing an ancient hunger inside with him. About 32 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  6. Christmas at the Psych Ward: A Killer Santa Stalks Sumpter Behavioral Health

    Patients in a snowbound psychiatric ward must work together when a Santa-suited killer cuts off their escape. About 37 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  7. All I Want for Christmas

    A cemetery worker steals a coveted doll from a child’s coffin to give his daughter the perfect Christmas present. About 22 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  8. Biting Cold

    A wounded hunter stranded in the Christmas snow must survive exposure and a beast that has not finished with him. About 20 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  9. Dead Silent Night

    Santa’s killer elf, Peppermint Ray, arrives with a monstrous reindeer and an overdue reckoning for a man on the naughty list. About 35 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  10. The Naughty List

    Thirteen children wake inside an ice maze, where a white-furred creature turns Christmas Eve into a deadly game. About 29 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  11. Holiday Homecoming Hullabaloo: Goblin Magic, Living Decorations & a Family Reunion

    A grieving family’s Christmas reunion is upended by an antique, a goblin named Kako and decorations with a life of their own. About 41 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

  12. Otis Slays Christmas: Killer Santa Slasher at Kmart

    An obsessive Kmart shopper mistakes a cashier’s routine greetings for secret love messages, setting up a Christmas killer-Santa rampage. About 81 minutes. Listen on Spotify.

More Christmas listening

Stories narrated by Henrique Couto. Follow Weekly Spooky on Spotify for more scary stories throughout the year.