2025 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology (ex-Contest/Anthology)
Please check WeirdChristmas.com for the text of all the stories along with links to the authors' bios, other works, and all the show notes....
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Weird Christmas Podcast
All things holly, jolly, and odd-ly.
Episodes
20 of 54 episodesBenito and Christkindlmarkt Travel PART TWO
If you’re looking for any of the links mentioned in the show, they're all at WeirdChristmas.com on the post for the first part of this conve...
Benito Cereno and Christkindlmarkt Travel (Christkindlemarkets in English for the searches)
Craig talks with Benito Cereno about Benito's tour of Christkindlmarkets (Or Christkindlmärkte to be accurate, but we're also gonna call the...
Weird Christmas Baking with Linda Raedisch
Baking: Recipes & Stories from Tomb Offerings to Gingerbread Boys . Talk about disgusting food and wondrously delicious treats, along with s...
2024 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest/Anthology Results Show
2024 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Winners: Weird Card Winner: “The Study of Owls and the Christmas Contronyms” by Daniel Roop Unrea...
2023 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Results Show
Please see WeirdChristmas.com for text and info on all the stories and writers.
Nisser and Tomtar (Scandinavian Elves) with Benito Cereno
Craig talks with the ever knowledgeable and jolly Benito Cereno about Scandinavian elves, which you're starting to see more and more places...
2022 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest (5th Annual Results Show)
The best show of the year: 19 stories of Christmas Weirdness from the annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest. Please visit WeirdChrist...
Ancient Christmas with Earl Fontainelle of the SHWEP
I talk to Earl Fontainelle of the SHWEP (Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast). We try to trace down any textual evidence that woul...
Mari Lwyd with Benito Cereno
Benito and I discuss the traditions surrounding the Mari Lwyd, getting into similarities with other European wassailing and hobby horse trad...
The Ghost Story of Christmas 2021ish ”A Strange Christmas Game” by Charlotte Riddell
SURPRISE CHRISTMAS IN JULY PODCAST! I never quite got this show finished during the season, so my humble apologies. All is now well. Thank y...
Christmas Past, American Xmas Literary History with Thomas Ruys Smith
I chat with Thomas Ruys Smith, editor of Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth Century America and Professor of A...
2021 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest (4th Annual Results Show)
It’s out later than I would have preferred, but like the inevitability of New Year’s following Christmas, it is here. To read the stories, g...
Ghost Stories, Weird Poetry, and All Manner of Old Xmas Weirdness with Christopher Philippo
Talking with Christopher Philippo, editor of Volumes 4 and 5 of the Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories. Chris' Goodreads s...
The Perchten with Al Ridenour
Al Ridenour is back after talking to us last year about Krampus , but this time to help unpack the lore and traditions around the Perchten,...
Christmas Murder Ballads with James Wynn
Happy Thanksgiving! We dive deep into the history of Christmas murder ballads with my friend (and cohost from the ReReading Wolfe Podcast) J...
Christmas Witches with Benito Cereno
La Befana, Perchta, Holda, and so many more! We chat with the always encyclopedic Benito Cereno about all the Christmas witch folklore in Ch...
2020 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Results Show
Full text of all the winners are at WeirdChristmas.com along with bios, information, and links for all the authors. All fiction copyright 20...
Philosophy, Christmas, and Does Santa Exist by Eric Linus Kaplan who wrote Big Bang Theory which I mentioned here totally for clicks
Sometimes when you have a podcast, you talk to people who interest you and you don’t worry so much about how it relates to the show or your...
The Ghost Story of Christmas 2020 "Between the Lights" by EF Benson
“…And scary ghost stories of Christmasses long, long ago!” Ghost stories from previous years if you’re in a spooky mood: 2019 , 2018 , 2017...