Midwinter Massacre: a Holiday Horror Novel

Snowed in at a shuttered mountain lodge, Dr. Eva Marcum tells herself this holiday will be different. No hospitals. No emergencies. No family disasters she can’t stitch back together.But White Fir Lodge isn’t just abandoned—it’s waiting.A blizzard seals the road, the power falters, and the lodge begins to collect: a child’s laughter in empty rooms, a gift no one placed under the tree, footprints that appear and stop mid-step, and a single word that keeps returning like a debt notice—CONFESS.As Christmas bleeds into the final days of the year, Eva’s family unravels under a pressure that feels personal—visions shaped like guilt, voices shaped like failure, and a ritual buried in the lodge’s history that was never properly finished. The locals warned them about the storm. They didn’t warn them about the countdown.Now New Year’s Eve is closing in, the cult that once fed the Old Year is stepping out of the fog, and something antlered and ancient is watching from the treeline—patient as time, hungry as regret.Because the year won’t turn clean on its own.And one of them is being asked to give themselves… willingly.Midwinter Massacre is a claustrophobic holiday horror novel packed with snowbound dread, family secrets, occult ritual, and a final hour that turns the lodge into a living trap—where survival depends on refusing the one word evil needs most:Invite.