{"id":1184,"date":"2014-11-19T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2019-07-08T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:09:00","slug":"haunted-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/haunted-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"HAUNTED HOLIDAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"xmascoverfull\"Haunted Holidays: 3 Short Tales of Terror<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for a little fright to go with your fa-la-la? Three thrilling horror writers\u2014Lisa Morton, Carolyn Haines (aka R.B. Chesterton), and Laura Benedict\u2014bring you three short, sharp tales of terror to liven up your holiday fireside reading.<\/p>\n

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The Christmas Spirit<\/em>
\nBy Lisa Morton
\nIn a last-ditch effort to save their troubled marriage, Elise and Ray decide to get out of London for Christmas and spend time together at the tatty, atmospheric Yorkshire cottage Elise has inherited from her Aunt Priscilla. When Ray surprises Elise with The Christmas Spirit, an old book he\u2019s bought in the village, Elise reads it aloud, anxious to make their stay a success. But the tale of murder and violence transcends time, reaching out for Elise and Ray, threatening not just their marriage, but their lives.<\/p>\n

The Christmas Ornament<\/em>
\nBy Carolyn Haines (aka R.B.Chesterton)
\nHomesick and stuck at Cornell University over the Christmas holidays, Clair and four of her fellow grad students accept Carlos Ard\u2019s invitation to spend Christmas at his great-uncle\u2019s isolated Victorian summer home deep in the woods. After a Christmas Eve feast, everyone settles in to hear ghost stories, but after Carlos brings out a box containing a family heirloom from Romania\u2014a Christmas ornament that\u2019s so cursed that it cannot even safely be seen\u2014the adventure becomes a nightmare from which Clair may never wake.<\/p>\n

The Christmas Gnome<\/em>
\nBy Laura Benedict
\nVenus Hansen has a perfect face, a perfect house, a perfect husband and two perfect children. When her mother-in-law in Norway sends them a shabby wooden Christmas gnome, Venus\u2019s perfect husband, Steffan, insists on surprising the children each morning before Christmas with some holiday-themed mischief that the gnome has gotten into, just like a certain elf that lives on a shelf. Venus doesn\u2019t want to have anything to do with it, but when Steffan\u2019s pranks go awry, and the gnome starts telling Venus vicious secrets, Christmas turns deadly, and her perfect life will never be the same.<\/p>\n

Stick around after the end of the stories, if you dare. Lisa, Laura, and Carolyn have all included thrilling samples from their other, current books as a special treat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haunted Holidays: 3 Short Tales of Terror Looking for a little fright to go with your fa-la-la? Three thrilling horror writers\u2014Lisa Morton, Carolyn Haines (aka R.B. Chesterton), and Laura Benedict\u2014bring you three short, sharp tales of terror to liven up your holiday fireside reading. The Christmas Spirit By Lisa Morton In a last-ditch effort to  [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}