The shocking slasher saga is back with a slay ride for the new millennium. Billy Chapman might be dead, but there’s a new killer Santa on the block and Billy’s brother Ricky is at the top of the Naughty List.
Christmas Joy, Utah. 1984
On Christmas morning, Billy Chapman - the Santa Claus Killer - was killed before he could claim his final victim: Mother Superior, the cruel architect of the orphanage where Billy endured years of abuse. His younger brother Ricky survived the massacre, but not unscarred.
Twenty years later, Ricky lives quietly in the nearby town of Bartlesville, hiding from his past. But on the anniversary of the killings, the past claws its way back. A blizzard descends on the region, cutting off power, roads, and escape. Sister Margaret, freshly released from a mental institution, reappears with a disturbing fixation on Ricky. And as Christmas Eve falls, a new Santa stalks the frozen streets… armed with a red sack and a gleaming fire axe identical to Billy’s.
He knows Ricky’s name. He knows his sins. And he has a naughty list to settle.
Armando Muñoz’s debut novel, Hoarder, was hailed by Fangoria magazine as “dynamite – a sickening, imaginative shocker.” His second novel, Turkey Day, marked his foray into the holiday horror subgenre and earned praise from master storyteller Clive Barker, who declared himself “a new fan” of Armando’s work. He released the sequel, Turkey Kitchen, in 2021, and is currently compiling his first collection of gothic fiction for an anthology. Muñoz’s epic movie tie-in novelizations include My Bloody Valentine (dubbed “a gold mine” by Fangoria), Silent Night, Deadly Night (Rue Morgue called it “deliriously inventive”), Happy Birthday To Me (described as “gleefully gruesome” by Bloody Disgusting), and Basket Case (which Fangoria warned their readers was Armando’s “most deranged offering yet,” and that the novel’s “insanity” was something they were “not prepared” for).
The shocking slasher saga is back with a slay ride for the new millennium. Billy Chapman might be dead, but there’s a new killer Santa on the block and Billy’s brother Ricky is at the top of the Naughty List.
Christmas Joy, Utah. 1984
On Christmas morning, Billy Chapman - the Santa Claus Killer - was killed before he could claim his final victim: Mother Superior, the cruel architect of the orphanage where Billy endured years of abuse. His younger brother Ricky survived the massacre, but not unscarred.
Twenty years later, Ricky lives quietly in the nearby town of Bartlesville, hiding from his past. But on the anniversary of the killings, the past claws its way back. A blizzard descends on the region, cutting off power, roads, and escape. Sister Margaret, freshly released from a mental institution, reappears with a disturbing fixation on Ricky. And as Christmas Eve falls, a new Santa stalks the frozen streets… armed with a red sack and a gleaming fire axe identical to Billy’s.
He knows Ricky’s name. He knows his sins. And he has a naughty list to settle.
Creators
Armando Muñoz’s debut novel, Hoarder, was hailed by Fangoria magazine as “dynamite – a sickening, imaginative shocker.” His second novel, Turkey Day, marked his foray into the holiday horror subgenre and earned praise from master storyteller Clive Barker, who declared himself “a new fan” of Armando’s work. He released the sequel, Turkey Kitchen, in 2021, and is currently compiling his first collection of gothic fiction for an anthology. Muñoz’s epic movie tie-in novelizations include My Bloody Valentine (dubbed “a gold mine” by Fangoria), Silent Night, Deadly Night (Rue Morgue called it “deliriously inventive”), Happy Birthday To Me (described as “gleefully gruesome” by Bloody Disgusting), and Basket Case (which Fangoria warned their readers was Armando’s “most deranged offering yet,” and that the novel’s “insanity” was something they were “not prepared” for).
