Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree, What lurks among your branches...Christmas can be the most wonderful time of the year. Lollipops and hot cocoa. Snowmen and sleigh rides. The love and hope that Christmas brings. Cold milk and warm cookies for Santa. Family, friends and the joyful laughter of children. But under the festive wrapping paper, the twinkling and sparkle of lights and tinsel, there may be less joyful things hidden. The holiday season can bring love, peace, and kindness... but it can also bring darkness that lurks among the shady branches of the Christmas tree, ornaments that were never meant to see the light of day even though they hang on holiday branches, and bones that jingle and dance in quest for Santa's red suit... and the flesh that lies within. In this collection of heartbreaking holiday stories, Ronald Kelly leaves ten scary and creepy gifts in the Christmas stockings that hang from the mantel of your cozy fireplace. Disgusting and dark gifts that slowly unfurl and come to life while you lie warm and cozy in your bed, and take on a nightmarish form in the icy winter hours of Christmas Eve, turning comfort and joy into horror and despair.