Asked to be part of a Christmas album, Run-DMC was worried a cover song would come across as fake. But finding a personal angle led to a song—and the Best Video of the Year award.

In the seasonal episode of TV fantasy police drama GRIMM, Nick is faced with destructive Christmas gremlins. Watch the Christmas special’s promo video.

From USA Today bestseller L.A. Detwiler comes a disturbing paranormal horror novel that will bring hell to the holidays and chilling fear to the festivities.

Zombie Solomon Grundy has crashed the Justice League’s Christmas party! Come watch one of my favorite episodes, which makes me laugh and also, I must admit, makes me cry.

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Hogfather is chock-full of supernatural figureheads—including Death, the Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost. And—oh, yeah—the Discworld version of Santa Claus. Said the author, “We are meddling with dark magic at the dark time of the year.”

Want a look at the scary side of Christmas? From Krampus and ghosts to zombies and killers, these anthologies offer dozens of authors raising a lot of questions about the season…

“Anna and the Apocalypse” mixes together a lot of stuff—it’s a musical about high school students graduating throughout a zombie outbreak during the holidays. Listen to a Christmas song from the soundtrack…

A Sherlock Holmes novel from the bestselling author of “The Age of Odin” and the Firefly novel “Big Damn Hero.” “There’s a literary tradition going back to Victorian times of equating Christmas with ghosts…”

It might seem more normal to see the Addams Family celebrate Halloween, but the original series did have a Christmas episode. Watch clips from “Christmas with the Addams Family”…

“I find most vampire novels soooooooooo disappointing…” The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

The 1959 Mexican fantasy film “Santa Claus” is a wildly interesting film that was apparently made by people who were only vaguely familiar with the Santa Claus tradition.

Acclaimed author and artist Brom raised pulse rates with his grim reimagining of the Peter Pan legend. For an encore, he tinkers darkly with the beloved mythology of Santa Claus.

The 1996 TV special The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas begins with Eddie feeling homesick. His dad decides a “good old Transylvanian Christmas” will put his son in the mood for the holidays.

This Christmas won’t be cheerful. It’ll be more like “Evil Dead” meets “Christmas Vacation.” The Wallace family’s annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails.

Every monster movie fan should know about Christopher Lee, who has appeared in lots of horror films. What you may have missed was his heavy metal Christmas songs.

It is winter at Nideck Point and for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other. “It was meant to be a Christmas book,” Rice said. “I thought, 'I want to do Christmas with the werewolf.'“

“Time for some season’s beatings…” Violent Night star David Harbour was initially nervous about the concept of a “Santa Claus action movie”—until the filmmakers convinced him.

Check out this article for some behind-the-scenes info about Dickens writing this classic, and enjoy a list of sci-fi and fantasy TV shows that have adapted the story for themselves.

This animated TV special revolved around three aliens from an unknown planet visiting Earth to learn the purpose of the Star of Bethlehem. Watch the whole special here.

In the 1966 animated TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” highlights the character’s dark disposition. Find out more about the making of the show, and hear pop violinist Lindsey Stirling and singer Sabrina Carpenter give the song a modern spin.