Is this Halloween? More like the Nightmare Before Christmas, when all through the house, not a living creature was stirring – but no one said anything about the undead! Yes, this is our anthology’s zombie Christmas tale, “The Dead of Night”, with some excellent apocalyptic mythology-making by debut author David Jobe!

This, along with 13 other holiday speculative fiction stories (plus “Lumps of Coal” by Nicole Cushing) are in our collection, “Gifts of the Magi”, whose profits go to Indy Reads Books, a nonprofit bookstore and literacy charity.