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Twelve stories. One very bad Santa. Merry f*cking Christmas.

Christmas has snapped. The jolly old man in the red suit has finally hit his limit — and so have his elves, his reindeer, and every twisted creature lurking at the edges of the holiday season. From a tactical-gear-clad Santa hunting down the Easter Bunny with grenades and grease paint, to a North Pole workshop where cheating foremen meet axes and elves settle scores with Shaolin fists, to a weary Kris Kringle unloading his sins in a Christmas-morning Alaskan dive bar — this anthology serves up twelve tales of Yuletide violence, dark humor, and righteous mayhem.

Following the success of the original Santa Rage: A Killer Claus Compendium, this second volume gathers eleven acclaimed short story writers alongside editor Kevin R. Tipple’s own sequel short story, delivering a collection packed with action, bite, and pitch-black laughs. Expect blood on the sleigh, bullets in the chimney, and justice served cold as a December wind.

These stories lean into the darker possibilities of the season — what happens when Santa knows everything about everyone, when the pressure of a single global deadline cracks the mind of the man who carries it, when elves wake up angry and reindeer bite back. Some tales deliver violent escapism. Others deliver karma with a bow on top. All of them turn the sugar-coated Christmas myth on its head.

If you loved the first volume, if you devour horror-comedy holiday fiction, or if you simply think the North Pole deserves a little bloodshed, this collection belongs on your reader. Pour a stiff drink, lock the chimney, and settle in.

This anthology includes contributions from Ron Clyburn, Tom Haftmann, Michael Ferreter, John M. Floyd, Geoff Holder, Christine Verstraete, Pat Remick, John T. Aquino, April Kelly, Beverle Graves Myers, Kevin R. Tipple and Madison Blackwell.