YA Christmas horror book

[ragothlham]

Hi all,

I saw a horror short today that sparked a memory of a book I read as a kid in the early 90's, but can't place for the life of me. What I remember was that it read as sort of a dark Goosebumps-type book, had a young, maybe teenage, girl as the protagonist, and the plot centered around a Christmas tree. I believe that it perhaps ate one of the family pets, but the climax revolved around it being a portal to another dimension that was accessed by going through its impossibly deep branches, or trying to reach the 'back' of the tree that always retreated? I think the parents, or at least the mom, was eaten and rescued by the end? IIRC, the tree was kind of sentient and could maybe hypnotize people?

If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Comments

[greendryad]

If it seemed to you like a Goosebumps book, have you tried finding a bibliography of R.L. Stine's work? Perhaps the titles and cover images might spark a memory.