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Home for the Holidays

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.

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Home for the Holidays

Trailer: Invitation to the Cookout: Grilling Season or Killing Season?

June 25, 2026 • Myth Lab Entertainment • Season 2 • Episode 1

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Home 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 sinister side of summer cookout season, whether Juneteenth, the 4th of July, Labor Day or any weekend in between. A greedy man frozen out of family gatherings due to his selfish, leftover-hoarding habits learns the hard way why you can’t accept every invitation to the cookout.

Perfect for listeners who enjoy horror with humor, creepy holiday stories, and festive scares with a twist.

Created, written and directed by The Kyles Sisters, two siblings raised on horror and Black folklore.

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Sound Design/mixed by Casey Baker

Intro/Outro Music “The Bayou’s Lament” by: Guillermo Cueva

Additional Music: “Mr. Boogeyman" | WSSWUHU3LTDX883U

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Greatmomma 0:08

Myth Lab Entertainment Presents… Home for the Holidays Invitation to the Cookout.

Greatmomma 0:08

It was the perfect day for a cookout, Nothing but blue skies and sun All the cousins were present, Well, all except one. That was my great, great nephew, Marcus Known for his jokes and his charm, But he was banned from this party, Though he meant no real harm. You see, Marcus loved family outings He was often the first one to show, The problem was he arrived empty-handed But left with the leftovers in tow. Auntie Deja was fed up and demanding, She felt that for too long the family was too understanding,

Auntie Deja: 1:54

Well damn, Marcus! Not everyone has eaten yet!

Greatmomma 1:54

She felt bad that his mother, her oldest sister, had passed last year. But Marcus made good money and wouldn’t bring a six-pack of beer. She convinced Big Momma to shadow ban him Until he learned to share He wasn’t completely oblivious; he always brought Tupperware. At first Marcus didn’t notice Until the invites were much fewer in number. He ate all the hot dogs at Juneteenth Deja told him he was banned for the summer. Marcus wasn’t defeated by what Deja said, He hatched another plan instead... No spoilers, as the folks on the Tik Toks will say. But his efforts to join another family cookout are legend to this day.

Aunt Sugar 1:54

Marcus, Marcus, yes he is such a sweet boy! He stopped by for the Fourth, but there were so many of us here...I don’t even know what time it was when he left.

Greatmomma 2:07

Myth Lab Entertainment presents Home for the Holidays, a new horror comedy anthology. Subscribe wherever you get your podcast.