Now in a special holiday edition, the hilariously deranged tale of Santa, fruitcakes, angels, and Kung fu. . . .

“Christopher Moore writes novels that are not only hilarious, but fun to read as well. He is an author at the top of his craft.—Nicholas Sparks

Moore sends a clueless archangel to Pine Cove to grant a little boy’s Christmas wish, only to botch the divine assignment and resurrect a murdered town developer as a very angry, brain-hungry Santa.

The novel gathers an ex-actress, a stoner town constable, and a helicopter pilot with a fruit bat inside the local chapel to defend their holiday buffet against hordes of the undead.

’Twas the night before Christmas . . . and all through Pine Cove, Florida, the creatures were stirring in this wonderfully funny tale that gives the spirit of Christmas a whole new meaning.

• Comic Fantasy: An eccentric cast of locals bands together at the Head of the Slug saloon, where the tough-as-nails bartender mixes lethal holiday cocktails and bakes fruitcake laced with prescription sedatives.
• Dark Comedy: Reawakened cemetery corpses develop an articulate craving for human flesh alongside an inexplicable, passionate desire to shop for Scandinavian flat-pack furniture.
• Small Town Setting: Pine Cove’s offbeat community includes a heartbroken field biologist conducting bizarre rodent experiments and an eager black Labrador retriever with terrible timing.
• Also by This Author: Lamb, Dirty Job and Secondhand Souls.