A Holly Jolly Holiday

A Holly Jolly Holiday is a short story in More & More & More Tales To Give You Goosebumps.

Plot
Beth is watching her favourite wrestler, The Krusher, on TV when she is interrupted by her sister Jody. Jody has found a mysterious new shop in town called The Christmas Shoppe, and bought a video tape of her favourite holiday special, "A Holly Jolly Holiday", about a fairy called Susie Snowflake who spreads cheer to everyone at Christmas. Jody plays the video and Beth becomes bored and leaves. Some time later she goes downstairs to see that her family has been playing the video over and over again; they have begun to act and talk like Susie Snowflake, and their hair has turned red like hers. Beth realizes to her horror that the same thing is beginning to happen to her. She asks Jody to hand over the videotape but Jody will not do it unless Beth uses Susie Snowflake's magic words to ask her. Beth can't remember what the words are.

The tape is beginning to take over Beth's mind until she hears the words, "Pretty-bitty please with Christmas trees", on the video. She repeats this to Jody, who hands over the tape. Beth is about to play it again when she sees that The Krusher is still on TV; reminding her who she really is. She throws the Susie Snowflake tape onto the fire and her family returns to normal.

On Christmas Day, Beth's present from Jody is a videotape of The Krusher's wrestling. Beth didn't know he had released a video, and gets very excited - until Jody says that it came from The Christmas Shoppe.