The Yule Cat has to be one of the most interesting Christmas beasts. Coming from Icelandic folklore, it's surrounded by mystery, and serves as a holiday cautionary tale - equal parts cute and ...

Dafni Ma divides her time between Greece, England, and Lithuania, or wherever her book-sniffing nose takes her. She has worked as an author, ghostwriter, editor, copywriter, publisher, screenwriter, ...

When it comes to holiday traditions, Santa and his reindeer are being upstaged by some quirky and unexpected traditions around the world. From a gift-pooping log in Spain to a mythical cat that ...

Mike Mignola's variant cover for Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat In a press release, Dark Horse explained that “the special one-shot is inspired by the stories of Jólakötturinn, the ferocious ...

Christmas time is upon us, and though children loathe getting new clothes for gifts, they best put on that new itchy sweater or slide on those unwanted socks. Or else risk being eaten alive by a giant ...

As I woke to a snowy scene this morning, and then promptly broke up the a.m. pre-feeding fight between my two cats, my thoughts drifted to the story of the Yule Cat, the mythological Icelandic feline ...

When we think of the holiday season, pop culture has conditioned us to equate the ideal Christmas with sitting around a warm fire burning a Yule log. Sadly, a whole heck of a lot of us don’t have a ...