About this podcast
Holiday cheer takes a terrifying turn in Home for the Holidays - a darkly comedic narrative fiction podcast that twists your favorite festive moments into hilarious horror stories. Each episode dives into a new “holiday horror,” blending spooky storytelling, sharp satire, and edge-of-your-seat suspense inspired by the obligations, chaos, and stress of the season.
Home for the Holidays won NYC Podcasting and American Writing awards for Season 1, containing a twisted Thanksgiving tale, Christmas Day disaster and New Year’s Eve nightmare. Season 2 arrives in your earbuds with a sinister summertime cookout episode, a reflection on privilege for Labor Day and a Halloween haunted house that breaks new ground on that specific scare. This scripted audio drama delivers a mix of laughs, frights, and unexpected twists. Home for the Holidays is perfect for fans of horror-comedy, holiday thrillers, and story-driven podcasts.
If you love dark humor, chilling holiday folklore, campy scares, and comedically cursed celebrations, this show will be your seasonal obsession. Tune in for atmospheric sound design, hilarious characters, spiraling holiday mishaps, and the comforting reminder that no matter how horrible your family gatherings are… it could always be worse.
Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts for a perfect mix of mischief, mayhem, and holiday horror.
Episodes
- Clearing The Heir: The Haunting of Hale House · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 3When an introverted woman named Brandi inherits her beloved grandmother’s estate, she thinks the only challenges she faces are jealous, freeloading relatives including her…
- Trailer: Clearing the Heir: The Haunting of Hale House · 2 min · Season 2 Episode 3An inherited family estate. Unwelcome ghostly residents. A family fight that could turn deadly. In “Clearing the Heir,” an episode of the horror-comedy podcast Home for the…
- The Privilege: A Labor Day Terror · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 2An estimated 600,000 Black women have been pushed out of the labor market since January 2025, a damning statistic that shows the impacts of anti-DEI policies and deep federal job…
- Trailer: The Privilege: A Labor Day Terror · 4 min · Season 2 Episode 2Privilege. It’s something that usually brings money, power and prestige. With an estimated 600,000 Black women displaced from the workplace under the current presidential regime…
- Invitation to the Cookout: RSVP for Evil · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 1We all have that freeloading relative who shows up empty handed but takes home all the leftovers, right? Well, one man learns the hard way why you can’t accept every invitation…
- Trailer: Invitation to the Cookout: Grilling Season or Killing Season? · 2 min · Season 2 Episode 1Home for the Holidays is a horror-comedy fiction podcast series where familiar holiday traditions take a tragic turn with a side of the supernatural. Season 2: Episode 1 explores…
- The Burning Bowl: New Year, New Fear · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 3In the third episode of our horror comedy podcast series, “Home for the Holidays,” an entitled woman engages in a burning bowl ceremony to cleanse her life of exes, annoying…
- Trailer: The Burning Bowl: New Year, New Fear · 2 min · Season 1 Episode 3In this trailer for Episode 3 of Home for the Holidays, our narrator Greatmomma previews the tale of a selfish woman whose New Year's Eve ritual brings devastating consequences…
- All of the Lights: Invasion of the Christmas Snatchers · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 2A festive feud turns terrifying in this episode of Home for the Holidays. When a nosy woman battles her eccentric neighbor over his over-the-top Christmas lights, she discovers…
- Trailer: All of the Lights: Invasion of the Christmas Snatchers · 2 min · Season 1 Episode 2In this trailer for Episode 2 of Home for the Holidays, a nosy woman learns a scary lesson after feuding with her odd neighbor over his “Las Vegas strip” Christmas light display…
- The Dressing: A Thanksgiving Terror · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 1In this episode of Home for the Holidays, a shiftless husband unleashes a holiday horror on his family when he substitutes the key ingredient in a tried-and-true Thanksgiving…
- Introducing: Home for the Holidays · 2 minHoliday cheer takes a terrifying turn in Home for the Holidays - a darkly comedic narrative podcast that twists your favorite festive moments into hilarious horror stories. Each…
