As you sit warm and cozy in your chair by the fire, comforted by the pretty lights and decorations of your holy nights, a chill runs up your spine. Part of you knows that the things that creep in the night and stalk your souls take no holiday. Indeed, as members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Horror Writer's Association are here to remind you with twenty dark tales and four eerie poems, at this time of the year, many terrors lie just beneath the tinsel. They bring a special kind of fear that can only be found in The Winter Horror Days. The Christmas Spirit Lisa Morton In the Dead of Winter K. A. Opperman Mother Night Elise Forier Edie The Eve Sirens Lauren Candia about Christmas '78 David Ghilardi Crying Wolf Kate Maruyama Choking Hazard Michael Paul Gonzalez Cursed by Saint Basil Kate Jonez Witch Sisters Sean Patrick Traver A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Christmas Yet to Come Kevin Wetmore Black Coal David Blake Lucarelli Pâtisserie du Diable Eric J. Guignard Dread of Winter Dreams of Summer Janet Joyce Holden The Sun Robin Morris Krampus Comes to Town Robert Payne Cabeen Showdown in Beverly Hills Hal Bodner The Quiet Christmas Tree Tracy L. Carbone Shamash Xach Fromson An Ugly Resurrection The Behrg The Scary Neighbor Ian Welke Santa Christ and the Xmas Miracle Terry M. West & Regina West Winter Witch Ashley Dioses The Fifty-Eighth Item Kathryn McGee ...And Eight Rabid Pigs David Gerrold