This book in its individual form is no longer available. It will be available again in April 2015 in Once upon a Nightmare: A Collection. A Horror Novelette They were only going out to dinner and a movie.​ ​​But their plans go astray, and friends Cassie, Mary, Denise, and James decide to take a detour down a lonely mountain road. A felled tree blocks their passage and forces them to turn around in a clearing containing a disturbing arrangement of four deer carcasses.​ ​Then their truck breaks down, and their cell phones don't work. They must brave the cold December air, nightfall, and a long hike. Yet their troubles are just beginning. Tension runs high between the four young friends…and they are not alone. Each step brings them closer to safety, but will they make it to the main road alive?​ Includes the monster's origin story "Nightmare at the Freak Show."

A Horror Novella The Sequel to Once Upon a December Nightmare Almost ten years have passed since that fateful December night. But the monster is hungry again. As the killings start again in New Haven, Virginia, FBI Agent Timothy "Tim" O'Conner sends for the lone survivor from the '02 murders to help him catch a killer. Cassie Richards wants nothing to do with the monster who killed her friends or the agent's investigation, but she can't forget the night that has haunted her nightmares. She returns to Virginia in search for closure, but will she be able to catch and kill a legend in time?