As the Halloween season folds back into the dark, there lingers one shadowy folklore figure that travels forward into the holiday season –– the Krampus. At first a pagan figure of the winter solstice ...

Krampus, the year’s most unconventional holiday movie, arrives in theaters this weekend. A campy, Christmas-themed horror movie from Trick ‘r Treat writer/director Michael Dougherty, the film follows ...

For generations the Christmas season has been infused with sweetness, but some families in Philadelphia are adding a dash of horror. There are no Christmas lights up at Janet Finegar's house in the ...

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Krampus is a complex figure associated with Christmas myth and folklore. He’s simultaneously a punishing enforcer of good behavior and a nightmarish, horned monster who whips children into obedience.

Every December, Santa Claus comes out and gives presents to good children around the world, according to popular culture. But according to some myths, children who have misbehaved are instead visited ...

Half-goat. Half-demon. This mythical beast was born from a centuries-old German tradition to whip naughty children into being nice. Krampusse walk through the streets of Goričane, Slovenia at the city ...

A year like this one has shattered our commercially approved image of what holiday cheer should look like. Since nothing could be worse than the fresh hell we’re all currently living in, some ...

“On Christmas Day, we will shut out from our fireside, Nothing,” Charles Dickens ominously wrote in his 1851 essay “What Christmas is as we grow older.” He continues, “Not the shadow of a vast City ...

Krampus, a half-goat, half-demon of centuries-old Austrian lore who's known for beating naughty people around Christmastime, is having a moment. "St. Nicholas comes with praise and presents and wisdom ...