The Christmas Present is a short story written by Ramsey Campbell. It was first published in 1975 in the anthology Nameless Places, edited by Gerald W. Page. It was reprinted in 1976 in The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV, also edited by Page; in 1988 in the anthology Ghosts for Christmas, edited by Richard Dalby; and in the digital magazine Pseudopod, #575, edited by Shawn Garrett and Alex Hofelich on December 24, 2017.