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Christmas has a way of softening the world—until something reminds you that winter has teeth.

The lights, the songs, the cheer… they never quite drown out the things that move in the dark. Not up here. Not now. And certainly not when something colder than the snow has dragged itself into the season wearing a smile that doesn’t belong to anything human.

Some visitors don’t come for cookies and milk.

Some traditions shouldn’t be revived.