25 nights. 25 horror stories.

“Thank you for choosing to work as a night guard at Santa Park. We’re thrilled to have you on our team. Here are a few simple rules you need to remember during your night shift:

1. Stay out of Santa’s post office between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.
2. Ignore the person calling for help from the gingerbread bakery – especially if that voice belongs to a loved one.
3. Do not trust the Elves.
4. Lights in the toy factory need to be kept on at all times. No exceptions.
5. If you notice someone peeking at you from behind the corners, do not run. Calmly walk back to the guardhouse and lock yourself in.

Thank you for your contributions in keeping Santa Park a safe and family-friendly place.”

At Lazarus House, Christmas is done properly: candles, old silver, roaring fires, snow on the lawns and a family determined to carry on as normal.

Eloise Hart has been welcomed into that family as Sebastian Lazarus’s devoted girlfriend. Since the accident that left him in a coma, she has stayed by his bedside, supported his mother and become part of the household.

But Sebastian’s sister, Imogen, doesn’t trust her. She thinks the woman everyone calls loyal may be something far more dangerous.

Then a member of the family vanishes during a Boxing Day blizzard.

As the search spreads across the frozen grounds, Lazarus House begins to reveal what it has been hiding. Because the Lazarus family has secrets of its own.

Someone at Lazarus House has lied.

Someone has killed.

And once they discover the truth, they will make sure no one else ever does…

Nothing matters more to Lorelai than creating the perfect Christmas. The house must look beautiful, the food must be spectacular and everything must be magical for her family.

But this year, things won’t go to plan.

At first, Lorelai convinces herself she’s imagining things. She’s exhausted and determined not to let anything ruin the festive season. But when a chilling threat is delivered, it becomes clear that a figure at the window was never a figment of her imagination.

Someone is watching her.

As disturbing events begin to escalate, and her carefully controlled life starts to unravel, Lorelai realises the danger isn’t just outside her home… it’s buried deep within her past.

It’s Christmas Eve and Holly Martin is bringing her new boyfriend home to meet the family. But from the moment they arrive, it’s clear the Martins are far from picture perfect. Secrets linger in every room of the house, and nobody wants to talk about what happened years before.

Then there’s a knock at the door. And standing outside in the snow is a young woman covered in blood.

With the blizzard raging and no way to call for help, the family have no choice but to bring the stranger inside. But as the hours tick towards midnight, somebody is determined to make sure this is the family’s final holiday together.

Because in this house, everyone is lying… but not everyone will live to see Christmas Day.

It’s Christmas in the village of Yule, Maine.

In fact, it’s always Christmas in Yule. Here, Santa Claus isn’t a storybook figure. He’s an icon. A god. The villagers don’t just believe in him—they worship him. And the world is better for it.

Halley Belanger hates Christmas, and she doesn’t have much love for Santa either. But when a string of child disappearances across Maine seems to spare only the village of Yule, Halley—a sharp, skeptical reporter—decides to investigate.

What she finds is a town that guards its secrets with gingerbread smiles and a snow globe sheen. Outsiders aren’t welcome. She isn’t welcome. And something sinister is keeping the Christmas spirit alive.

As Halley digs deeper, she begins to uncover the horrifying truth behind Yule’s eternal cheer. Christmas comes at a grisly cost. And Santa Claus is no saint.

May Morrigan was hoping for mulled wine and minimal drama this festive season. But when your eccentric mother asks you to hide a bloody knife, your estranged twin sister moves in, and your housemate is staging a chaotic pantomime starring a washed-up TV actor with a stalker . . . a quiet Christmas is off the cards.

When a string of mysterious stabbings shatters the peace on the heath, May finds herself sleuthing through a flurry of secrets involving long-lost babies, pantomime politics, and more than one case of mistaken identity. With her divorce finale looming, her love life in tatters, and her sister revealing a life-altering secret of her own, May must untangle a knot of lies stretching back decades.

As snow falls and secrets unravel, the Morrigan women must reckon with the past—before another body drops.

The Christmas season is underway in Caerphilly. The members of the Hollingsworth clan, Meg’s mother’s family, are beginning to arrive in force, and Mother has several special projects underway this year. One is the playhouse she’s having built for Brynn, her two-year-old granddaughter. Brynn is a bright, lively child who loves animals, especially a wounded jay that she and Meg are trying to rehabilitate. She’s also hoping to play matchmaker and set up her cousin with an old friend of hers who was recently widowed.

But all is not going smoothly in Caerphilly. Someone vandalizes the playhouse and sets a dangerous trap that injures and could have killed Mother. She reveals that she has been getting nasty anonymous letters, and it’s obvious that someone is targeting her. Meg realizes she has to do something to figure out who could possibly have it in for her mom.

Meg juggles holiday preparations and celebrations while investigating these potential enemies – not to mention helping repair the damaged playhouse, taking her turn at nursing the wounded jay, and trying to coax Mother’s elderly cousin into a reunion with his long-lost love. When one of Meg’s suspects is found dead under suspicious circumstances, the family rejoices that Mother is out of danger. But Meg isn’t quite sure they’re out of the woods just yet.

On a frosty day in December 1936, librarian and part-time detective Dora Wildwood is summoned to Bath. She has no idea what will unfold but she is glad to go; recent events have left her longing to disappear.

Arriving on the world-famous Royal Crescent, Dora quickly learns of Daisy Palmer, whose unsolved murder looms large over the Georgian city. Daisy’s fiancé, Lord Frank Meroe, lives on as an eccentric recluse, his house full of clutter and abandoned treasures, as labyrinthine as it is magnificent.

Then, on the twentieth anniversary of Daisy’s death, murder is committed once more. As Christmas trees are lit and carol singers gather, Dora is drawn into a tangle of feuding families, suspicious antiquarian dealings and a conspicuous silence from everyone involved. For in the city of Jane Austen, loyalties run deep… and dangerously so.

Struggling mystery writer Nicholas Child is commissioned to help another writer finish the overdue follow up to his breakout bestseller.

Travelling to Grey Gables, the writer’s Cape Cod home, in the week before Christmas, he discovers a house full of secrets, and a cast of very suspicious guests.

When two shocking deaths occur, Nicholas tries to write his account of what happened, and a perfectly fiendish puzzle starts to emerge.

Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love – and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man.

But in the Advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter’s lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever.