Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2025 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.

A Genre I Wish was More Popular

I would love it if stories in the Christmas horror genre were more popular. I love Christmas and horror, but there doesn’t seem to be much of it around in book form, although there are many films in the genre.

And Christmas is the perfect horror setting if you think about it; people are meeting up who often don’t see each other for most of the rest of the year, which could make for great tension, there’s happiness and merriment and lovely snowy scenery and Christmas trees which make for vibrant and vivid settings where blood can contrast with snow and dread can play off against the joy.

Christmas horror is brilliant because it draws you in. You never know what you’re going to get in terms of “scares” because you could tell any kind of story.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy horror on its own—it’s just that winter and the holiday season lend a certain something to a scary story.

Well, that’s post 48 done! We’re almost at the end of November already!

Anyhoo, as ever, thank you for dropping by and reading today’s post. It means the world.

Until next time,

George

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