# Title: Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill

## Author: Bryan Smith

**Started Reading**: 2020-11-22

**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-22

[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28113652-christmas-eve-on-haunted-hill)

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This was...
 - short (just over 100 pages)
 - holiday-themed (obviously.  It took place all on Christmas Eve)
 - bad.  Well, to be fair it was more like a Tales from the Crypt episode.  For such a short story it skipped a lot of background and took some liberties with characters and backstory.  Hey I read the whole thing, so it wasn't that bad.

Luke is the lone survivor of a Christmas Eve massacre committed by his Santa-suited father 10 years ago.  Ten years later, Luke is back in town, in a Santa suit, with plans to commit suicide after getting wasted in the local bar.  When he runs into an old friend (divine providence?) things take a different turn and he decides to destroy his old house, the scene of the original tragedy.  But a bunch of kids have beat them to the house and are about to come face-to-face with an evil that visits the house once a year to bring something far more sinister than presents.

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