No rest ye frightened gentlemen
Full of horror and dismay...
When the St. Wenceslas Episcopal Church choir bus gets trapped in a snowdrift on the way to a Christmas Eve competition, the eleven members find their way to an inn run by the mysterious Innkeeper. Though disappointed that they won't get to the competition, they decide to make the best of it by opening their Secret Santa gifts.
But the gifts they open are not the original presents they bought for each other. Every one links back to a dark secret in their past, one that they are compelled to share: stories of Christmas monsters, cursed objects, and vengeful spirits. Featuring stories by David Washburn, Nick Aucoin, Julia C. Lewis, Nikki Kossaris, Zach Swasta, Loki Dewitt, Greta T. Bates, M. Rook Grimsley and a wraparound and story by Kay Hanifen, these travelers will tell their tales Till the Yule Log Burns Out.
Kay Hanifen was born on a Friday the 13th and once lived for three months in a haunted castle. So, obviously, she had to become a horror writer. Her work has appeared in over fifty anthologies and magazines. When she's not consuming pop culture with the voraciousness of a vampire at a 24-hour blood bank, you can usually find her with her black cats or at kayhanifenauthor.wordpress.com.
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David Washburn lives in the Greater Cincinnati area (in Northern Kentucky for any locals who choose to argue about geography) where he lives with his two teen sons and the lady of the house. When David isn't fighting imposter syndrome as a writer he is probably working out, watching horror movies, baseball, or wrestling.
Suspense and Tension are David's playground and he has independently self-published multiple books in addition to having short stories published in several anthologies.
Greta T. Bates resides in a quaint, coastal town and considers herself a beach person, a winter beach person. Summers find her indoors, writing and editing and waiting for fall. She writes stories that explore lost love, revenge, and the struggle of being a human, told through the lens of horror. A Mills College alumna, she has been featured in several online publications and her poetry can be found in Dream, 2nd edition, and Shards, both publications of Ravens Quoth Press. Greta has fire sign short stories in Horror Scope-A Zodiac Anthology, volumes 1 and 3. And, she is the proud author of Wounded. Look for her second novella in the Wounded series, Hazed, coming soon!!!
Currently, she is working on her first novel. Greta lives in Fairhope, AL with her small fam, 3 cats, and her little dog too.
Find her at:
www.instagram.com/greta_t_bates
Website:
gretabateswrites.wixsite.com/gretatbatesauthor
