The countdown has begun, but the only thing striking at midnight will be terror. For the anthology “Year’s End,” join more than a dozen horror authors as they reveal the dark side of our end-of-year celebrations.

In this Christmas horror comedy novel, Lussi Meyer must figure out the meaning of the cursed gift before it destroys her soul. It’s “The Office” meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel.

Often hailed as a terrible movie, the 1964 film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians carries a weird kind of charm that beckons me. Want to watch? Here’s the whole movie right here…

What was the worst thing you’ve ever done? In a sleepy town about to be engulfed by a Christmas blizzard, four old men are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...

A man is given a strange creature—which generates other creatures that unleash chaos over a whole town Christmas Eve. Watch interviews on set during the making of Gremlins…

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.

Asked to be part of a Christmas album, Run-DMC was worried a cover song would come across as fake. But finding a personal angle led to a song—and the Best Video of the Year award.

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.

In the seasonal episode of TV fantasy police drama GRIMM, Nick is faced with destructive Christmas gremlins. Watch the Christmas special’s promo video.

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.

Zombie Solomon Grundy has crashed the Justice League’s Christmas party! Come watch one of my favorite episodes, which makes me laugh and also, I must admit, makes me cry.

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…

Does Paramount need to sell off Star Trek to save the company? This can mean either selling its products to another channel or selling the whole brand to another studio. How likely is that?

“Anna and the Apocalypse” mixes together a lot of stuff—it’s a musical about high school students graduating throughout a zombie outbreak during the holidays. Listen to a Christmas song from the soundtrack…

It might seem more normal to see the Addams Family celebrate Halloween, but the original series did have a Christmas episode. Watch clips from “Christmas with the Addams Family”…

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.

The 1959 Mexican fantasy film “Santa Claus” is a wildly interesting film that was apparently made by people who were only vaguely familiar with the Santa Claus tradition.