Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado:

• Dread Central consider the importance of Black Christmas in the context of rape culture
• Crime Reads look beyond A Christmas Carol to some of Dickens’ other festive ghost stories
• The Ginger Nuts of Horror’s Young Blood Library select the best YA horrors of the year
• The Lineup pick out nine final girl horror books which prove girls are not to be messed with
• What Sleeps Beneath choose three of the many Friday the 13th films and argue it is a powerful trilogy

Dread Central consider the importance of Black Christmas in the context of rape culture

Bee Delores, writing for Dread Central, looks at the 1974 original and 2019 remake of Black Christmas and find a film which is more important than ever in the context of rape culture.

Crime Reads look beyond A Christmas Carol to some of Dickens’ other festive ghost stories

Crime Reads’ Olivia Rutigliano goes beyond the classic A Christmas Carol and finds several other chilling Christmas ghost tales.

The Ginger Nuts of Horror’s Young Blood Library select the best YA horrors of the year

Tony Jones, custodian of The Ginger Nuts of Horror’s Young Blood Library, selects the very best of YA horror from 2024, broken down by age group.

The Lineup pick out nine final girl horror books which prove girls are not to be messed with

Kasey Noss, writing for The Lineup, chooses nine final girl horror books which demonstrate that girls are not to be messed with.

What Sleeps Beneath choose three of the many Friday the 13th films and argue it is a powerful trilogy

Pulling three films from the multitude of Friday the 13th features, What Sleeps Beneath’s Albert Brooks makes a case for The Tragedy of Jason Vorhees, a trilogy within the series which stands up to cinema’s best.

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KEV HARRISON