Scary Snippets: Christmas Edition

by Nick Moorefox, Ariana Ferrante, Melody Grace

Hark how we tell
Sweet Christmas Hell
All us will say,
Throw cares away!

Christmas is near,
Bring holiday fear
To young and old
Snippets to be told!

Ding dong... ding dong
Horror we bring

One seems to hear
Screaming in fear
From everywhere
Filling the air.

Oh how spirits pound,
Raising the sound,
O'er hill and dale,
Telling their tale.

Gaily they write
Of people’s fright
Snippets of fear,
Christmas is here.

Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas,
Scary, scary, Scary, Scary Christmas.

Unknown Binding

First published December 12, 2019

About the author

Nick Moorefox is a ghost-soaked horror writer, voracious reader, and decent cook. A veteran, Nick loves wild places, cozy towns, the oxford comma, and stories where the dog survives. His influences include Barron, Jones, and Moreno-Garcia. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nick was raised in New England and after stints in the Mid-Atlantic, the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe, now resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains. His work has appeared in Soteira Press, the NoSleep Podcast, Eerie River Publishing, Nocturnal Sirens Publishing, and Delora Publishing. You can find him online at linktr.ee/nickmoorefox.

Reviews

[Aurora M.]

I have a story in this book

[Robin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This Christmas anthology gets 2 stars instead of 1, because a couple of the stories amused me, but that’s the only reason. It starts out with several stories set at Thanksgiving, not Christmas, so I don’t feel they belong in a Christmas collection. The editing, grammar, spelling, and spacing are problematic. There was one story repeated. For a few stories, at the end, there was a blank page with nothing but a page number at the top. Highly disappointing and not much ‘horror’ at all, other than the lack of editing or Beta readers. In both this, and the Halloween one I read, the ‘poems’ are just terrible examples of writing.