The Devil's Ledger: Week of December 22nd

Dec 23, 2025

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📖 The Devil’s Ledger — Week of December 22

Christmas Shadows, Haunted Lodges, and the Things We Can’t Leave Behind

This week on The Devil’s Ledger, the books close out the year the only way they know how — by leaning into the darker side of the holidays.

We begin with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week: a chilling account of the Whistler Ski Lodge Poltergeist, where staff and guests alike report unexplained footsteps, moving objects, and the unsettling feeling that the lodge is never truly empty. Set against the long winters and deep history of Whistler, it’s a reminder that beautiful places can still hold something restless.

From there, we move across the Evio Creative slate for a holiday-themed tour of fear, reflection, and reckoning.

🎄 This Week on The Devil Within

It’s the Christmas Special, where we step away from cults and crime scenes to explore the Christmas movies that scared us, unsettled us, or left us with an existential dread about what the holidays really mean. From ghostly visitations to stories of isolation, regret, and time running out, we unpack why so many holiday films feel more like reckonings than celebrations.

📖 This Week on Criminal Mischief

Carolyn Ossorio takes a rare break from murder and mystery to read The Velveteen Rabbit, the classic Christmas story about love, loss, and becoming real. There are no suspects this week — just a quiet, moving reminder that being loved often means being changed forever.

🩸 This Week on The Ides of April

Christmas turns deadly as The Ides of April revisits one of history’s most infamous holiday murders: the assassination of Grigori Rasputin. Poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned, Rasputin’s death reads like myth — but its consequences were very real, accelerating the collapse of an empire already on borrowed time.

🗝️ This Week on Taboo Treasures

The boys are taking the week off to enjoy the holidays, but they’ll be back in the New Year with more strange objects, dangerous histories, and cursed curiosities.

🎬 What’s New in Horror

28 Years Later, directed by Danny Boyle, returns to a world long past the initial panic of apocalypse. Rather than chaos, the film explores endurance — and asks whether survival without hope is really survival at all. Bleak, mature, and occasionally haunting, it’s less about thrills and more about what remains when the world simply refuses to end.

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🎄 Happy Holidays from all of us at Evio Creative.

Thank you for listening this year — we’ll see you in the New Year, with the ledger open once again.

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