The worst Noel
Subtitle: hellish holiday tales.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Horror tales, American; Holidays -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Everyone has a Christmas-nightmare story to tell. Some of the best writers around have gone through some of the worst Christmases ever. Their tales of holly-draped horror are gathered here for your amusement, from Christmas-ham disasters to what may be the worst gift ever given.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Donner is dead -- Cynthia Kaplan; title: Blue Christmas: the tour -- John Marchese; title: Eight -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal; title: That's just about enough figgy pudding, actually -- Catherine Newman; title: Birthdays -- Ann Patchett; title: The accidental Santa -- Joni Rodgers; title: Christmas 2001 -- Anne Giardini; title: The bite before Christmas -- Stanley Bing; title: Survivor -- Louis Bayard; title: I'll have Christmas with the works on rye, hold the ham and Jesus -- Valerie Frankel; title: Christmas in Paris -- Mike Albo; title: We really must get together this year -- Marian Keyes; title: The gift of the Magi redux -- Binnie Kirshenbaum; title: A foreign country -- Mitchell Symons; title: The Jew who cooked a ham for Christmas -- Neal Pollock; title: Rum balls -- Roger Director; title: Buy humbug -- Cintra Wilson; title: The gift that did not need wrapping -- Elizabeth Noble.