The Holiday Spectacular #5 Edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Jumpstart Your Holiday Spirit!!

Binge the entire collection! 40 holiday stories that center around holidays from American Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day.

Award-winning and bestselling writers explore the holidays in 40 stories told through the snowy lense of three different genres–mystery, romance, and this year's "secrets" theme.

This volume contains 40 stories, including two previously uncollected Kristine Kathryn Rusch stories, presented as they first appeared in the 2023 WMG Holiday Spectacular! Where subscribers receive a story a day from American Thanksgiving until New Year's Day. (Click here to learn more about the 2024 Calendar of Stories)

Also included in this story stuffed stocking of an anthology are award-winning and "Best of" stories:

Annie Reed’s “Dead Names” will appear in The Mysterious Books Presents The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023, edited by Amor Towles. 

Kristine Kathryn Rusch's story, “Catherine The Great,” won the Short Mystery Society’s Derringer Award for Best Novelette.

The fifth volume in a series that appears annually, The Holiday Spectacular #5, will knocking your stockings off and fulfill all your holiday story needs.