CHRISTMAS & The Holidays

Joanne makes her home the perfect place for Christmas so her grandchildren will always remember the holiday. She puts her Christmas cards on the ba...

Think about it: Santa sneaks in during the dead of night. He steals cookies, drinks some milk, maybe tracks ashes all over the living room. Yeah, ...

What pairs better than peppermint and hot chocolate? Romance and the holidays, of course!In this year’s most charming WMG Holiday Spectacular anth...

Punishments for elven crimes vary. So, when Rolf finds himself serving time as a toy on a mantel during the Christmas season, Rolf figures he got ...

Imagine a dinner party in an English country manor with an American cook named Bubba making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, waiters from Cal ...

Christmas: a time of family, tradition, togetherness—until your family shatters. With no grandparents to spoil her daughters, one single mom faces...

The ten stories all appeared at Christmas time. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, called one of the best short story writers of her generation, has compiled ...

Nissa Kealoha helps control Santa’s image—his brand. An Image Specialist with Claus & Company, she helps promote his positive image and deflect...

Raine Wilkins covers Life and Style stories for the Chicago Courier. When she runs into Niko North outside a gala event, she finds herself drawn to...

Dallas Demaris unites magic with technology. She specializes in computers. But when her company orders her to go to the North Pole to help Claus &...

Crime threads its way through everything, including the holidays. But for writers, that just adds some spice to their creativity.Take this WMG Hol...

Five really, really, really weird Poker Boy stories from twisted mind of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean pre...

According to Officer Nick Mantino, Nutball Season runs from Halloween to Christmas. This Christmas season, he has more than his usual number of nu...

Stan, the God of Poker sends Poker Boy on a wild goose chase, to find a casino in Northern Nevada. Surprise, Poker Boy finds it.And from that, the ...

Time travel might not seem like the standard holiday story fare. But in the hands of talented writers, you’ll find yourself transported to new plac...

For the fourth anthology in the Fiction River line, paranormal romance writer Kristine Grayson invited a stellar lineup of cross-genre authors to t...

Forget run-of-the-mill holiday stories. In this cleverly creative WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch o...

Kristine Grayson’s popular Santa Series—Up on the Rooftop, Visions of Sugar Plums and Dressed in Holiday Style—together in one volume. The magic o...

Murder, mayhem, and all manner of crimes set during the holiday season give this anthology a bite that serves as a delightful change from the swee...

Alone for Christmas, Michela longs for the past, the future—anything but the present. The present holds pain, loneliness, longing, loathing. The p...

Love the holiday seasons? Of course you do. Full bellies and the joyful promise of a new year make for good stories and fun reading. Add some twis...

A mystery story about a grown man, an attorney, alone on Christmas Eve, who can’t allow himself to believe in Santa Claus. But someone keeps eating...

Six really, really, really weird holiday stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dea...

Christmas stories abound, but hardly anyone writes stories based on Thanksgiving or New Year’s Day. This collection of five stories has two Christ...

Gail looks forward to her annual Christmas shopping trip to the high-end specialty foods store. Until her phone keeps interrupting with news alert...

Light-hearted holiday stories abound, but when the days turn cold and bracing, darker tales tempt the senses. This collection of five stories from...

Read a holiday story per day from the end of November to January first…or binge the entire collection. This volume contains 37 stories—ranging in ...

Read a holiday story per day from the American Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day…or binge the entire collection. This volume contains 38 stories—rang...

An Annual Holiday Celebration! Read a holiday story per day from American Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day...or binge the entire collection. This vo...

Winter holidays mean lights, decorations, and delicious food. They bring about a sense of joy and a giving spirit that seems more abundant than at...

Take stories detailing all the nastiest parts of human behavior, from theft to murder to mayhem, throw in some of the “lesser” darkness that human...

Venture forth into the delightful adventures of ghosts and elves and imps and more found in the magical worlds of Fantastic Christmas. Enjoy sweet...

The best holiday stories delight with heartfelt satisfaction from beginning to end. Romance forms the core of most of the stories in this volume, ...

Romance and holidays go hand-in-hand. In this year’s sweetest WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offer...

Kimi enjoys her new life and her new job at the outlet mall, even during the Thanksgiving shopping rush. But Kimi hides secrets. And she fears she ...

Bobberts got his name from his little sister Sarah. He likes her okay. But she can be annoying, like when she wants to make snow angels at the Chr...

Hayes loves the Earth to the Moon route on Christmas Eve. It pays triple. But Trish, his companion on this Christmas Eve flight, has another perspe...

Before he left to fight in World War II, Jack promised Myrtle he’d be home for Christmas. But Myrtle begged Jack not to make a promise he couldn’t...

Silas has worked for Death in Nevada for 150 years. He gets Christmas and Christmas Eve off. Only this year, his substitute finds him in a Las Veg...

When Gabriella finds herself stranded at O’Hare airport because of an epic snowstorm, she hopes she will still make it to Thanksgiving dinner with...

The man who calls himself Matt Sturtz only connects with other human beings at Christmas. He takes a job as a mall Santa, and marvels that no one c...

Annabeth loses her Dolly three days after her daddy died. Little Annabeth searches everywhere, but she can’t understand why God would take away he...

On the first Christmas since her husband Tyler died, Amelia goes to the lab to revisit their research. After all, what could it hurt? One little le...

Cat’s love for John inspires the bestselling romances she writes. Her heroes and heroines experience what she cannot: John’s touch. John, too, long...

When Susan gave birth to her son on Christmas Day, she named him Harold, after her late father. All his life, Harold wanted to sing. And all his li...

Frank’s Corner Bar boasts a long history. And traditions. Especially Christmas traditions. But this year, Christmas might just hold a few surprises...

Joy abounds during the Christmas season. A sense of magic threads through everything, and the spirit of make-believe becomes almost commonplace. T...