Here is the featured Horror Story for December 2009. A short teaser follows the heading. Click on the title to read the whole story.

The Hunter by Lakesha Landrum

The silvery moonlight speckled the bare branches of the trees and stained the snow-covered ground a bright white. The softly dimpled snow gave way as heavy boots crashed down. The shadowed form of a hunter was making its way through the woods. The form was a hunched and twisted sight in the gleam of the moon.

Winter's Warm Embrace by Robert T. Tuohey

Cold and dark.
A coldness that more than chills, or bites, or even pierces. Rather a coldness that creeps upon you, pervasive and relentless. It comes over you, then into you. Tingling, needling, then numbing, with a true loving hate. Gradually, imperceptibly, the body, the mind, finally , even the soul itself, grows lifeless …