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Whether you like your holiday movies classic or contemporary, happy or sad, sentimental or cynical, or with or without Bruce Willis, we've got a Christmas movie for every mood.

Scott Beggs














Photo illustration: Shaunacy Ferro. Images: Penguin Random House

Shirley Jackson, the famed author of 'The Lottery' and 'The Haunting of Hill House,' claimed to be a witch.

Shaunacy Ferro


These words are so wonderful even Santa wants to use them.

Every time Christmas rolls around it brings with it its own vocabulary of words you barely hear the rest of the year. Here are a few we should bring back.

Paul Anthony Jones