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Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas

A cozy dark Christmas comedy wrapped in peppermint, cursed family traditions, and one gingerbread bear who refuses to stay baked.

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Run, run, as fast as you can.

No one can outrun
the Gingerbread Man.

A Hollybrook Christmas carol

A picture-perfect town.
A recipe for murder.

Hollybrook looks like the Christmas card everyone wants to step inside: pastel cottages, warm cocoa, fresh snow, and family recipes passed down for generations.

But the gingerbread is watching. The carols carry warnings. And beneath the sugar and snow is a holiday tradition with teeth.

Cozy dark comedyCursed recipesChristmas horrorDeadly gingerbread
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The collector hardcover

A book experience
made to be unwrapped.

This special hardcover turns the story into a keepsake Christmas experience—beautiful enough for the mantel and just cursed enough to make you check the cookie tray twice.

  • ✦ Decorative sprayed edges
  • ✦ Gleaming foil hardcover
  • ✦ Cursed recipes you can actually bake
  • ✦ Haunted Christmas hymns throughout
  • ✦ Full-color Hollybrook world details
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Full-color Chapter One interior spread from the collector hardcover with candy canes, cookies, and Gingerbear artwork

From the cursed heirloom cookbook

Bake the curse yourself.

These fully designed classic recipes are as delicious as they are dangerous—from hypnotic cranberry orange cake to gingerbread truffles and a bewitched yuletide log.

Three illustrated cursed heirloom recipes from the hardcoverTaste the full experience

A town with secrets

Welcome to Hollybrook.

Follow the gumdrop paths from Hollybrook High to the Peppermint Bark Coffee Shop, Marzipan B&B, and Main Street. We hope you never check out.

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Illustrated map of Hollybrook

Christmas card gone wrong

See the world come alive.

Gingerbear sitting suspiciously amid a Christmas morning crime scene
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The cursed carols

Full Soundtrack

Let Hollybrook follow you home with an original holiday soundtrack woven from storybook wonder, ominous carols, and cinematic Christmas magic.

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A story you can hear breathing

Cinematic Audiobook

Experience every sinister snowfall and sugar-coated scare through immersive voices, music, and sound design.

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Gingerbread bear plush design shown from the front, side, and back

Bring the menace home

Meet Gingerbear.

Soft, palm-worthy, and suspiciously cheerful. This custom plush brings Hollybrook’s most notorious cookie off the page—with his bow tie, gumdrop buttons, icing trim, and unmistakably wicked little smile.

He’s cute. He’s cursed. He sees you when you’re sleeping.

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Gingerbread bear peeking over the snow-covered houses of Hollybrook

A special exclusive release

Have yourself a
deadly little Christmas.

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