Listen to the audio edition here: On a cold December night in Northern Liberties, Liberty Lands Park fills with bells, drums, horns, and fur. Lanterns glow. A bonfire crackles. A Slavic choir sings.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The Christkindl Markt at the Grand Rapids Downtown Market is preparing for its first-ever Krampus Bash on Friday, Dec. 19. The third annual Christkindl Markt runs through Tuesday, ...

Krampus is a centuries-old, European folklore character, but his more recent popularity in the U.S. is thanks to a comic-loving Chicagoan. On the morning of St. Nicholas Day, good kids rush downstairs ...

Winter in Phasmophobia has a habit of turning cozy nights into something far more unsettling, and Winter’s Jest 2025 is no exception. As snow settles across haunted homes and familiar locations, ...

A new exhibit in the Clarke Historical Museum’s Emmerson Room takes a look at the happy and the horrific in Victorian holiday lore. “For Christmas season this year, I chose to focus on Krampus, who is ...

In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many... It's Christmastime — and if you live in the Alps, ...

SALZBURG, Austria — As you approach Salzburg's Max Aicher Stadium on the eve of the feast of St. Nicholas, you'd be forgiven if you thought that, from a distance, there appeared to be a Chewbacca ...

This 2015 horror movie from Universal Pictures is perfect for this holiday season... in the worst way. This is the filmmaker who gave us “Trick r’ Treat,” one of the most legendary cases of ...

Krampus, the mythological figure that punishes the naughty, will be making a stop in Albuquerque this weekend, making coal in your stocking seem not so bad. On the nice list this year? Check out one ...

Before there was Santa Claus there was Krampus, St. Nick’s pre-Christian, hirsute and horned counterpart. Krampus scampered through wintry Alpine villages across Central Europe. His goal? To coax ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Krampus around Chicago. If you haven’t met the mythical holiday figure yet, consider yourself lucky — or on the perma-nice list. This towering half-goat, half-demon ...