Book cover for The Darkest Night: A Terrifying Anthology of Winter Horror Stories by Bestselling Authors, Perfect for Halloween by Lindy Ryan

The Darkest Night

A Terrifying Anthology of Winter Horror Stories by Bestselling Authors, Perfect for Halloween

2024 Released
320 Pages
5-6 Hours
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Crooked Lane BooksISBN 9781639108725

From some of the biggest names in horror comes an Advent calendar of short holiday horror stories perfect for the darkest nights of the year.

Edited by award-winning author and anthologist Lindy Ryan and with contributions from masters of horror like Josh Malerman, Eric LaRocca, and Clay McLeod Chapman, this horrific anthology will chill you to the bone.


From New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, Josh Malerman, comes a story of a dark Christmas past in “Children Aren’t the Only Ones Who Know Where the Presents Are Hidden.” 

From national bestselling author Rachel Harrison, in “Thaw,” a couple spends their first Christmas together in a cabin—but are they alone, or does something else watch them from the tree line? 

New York Times bestselling authors Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon’s “Wintry Blue” sets an innocent child on the road with a strange and monstrous creature. 

From the Bram Stoker Award–winning screenwriter of Netflix’s Haunting of Bly Manor and The Fall of the House of Usher, in Jamie Flanagan’s “Bruiser,” something sinister stalks the chilling hallways of a nursing home at night. 

Author of Such a Pretty Smile, Kristi DeMeester, tells a tale of “Eggnog”: a Christmas party, an overfriendly female coworker, and an angry wife are the recipe for a deadly cocktail party. 

Plus stories by Nat Cassidy, Darcy Coates, Clay McLeod Chapman, Tim Waggoner, and many more, with an introduction by George C. Romero and art by renowned British horror artist Mister Sam Shearon.

Lindy Ryan

Lindy Ryan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author and anthologist whose books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Author-in-residence at Rue Morgue and a columnist at BookTrib, Ryan was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020 and has been declared a “champion for women’s voices in horror” and one of horror’s most masterful anthology curators. She is an award-winning professor at Rutgers University, and a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State University’s Creative Writing MFA program. On Instagram and Substack @lindyryanwrites.

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