Stupidest Angel, The LP

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 sets the pandemonium in motion when an evil developer playing Santa takes a fatal shovel to the neck, leaving his ex-wife and a lonely DEA pilot scrambling to hide the body. The story summons the Archangel Raziel to grant a boy's holiday prayer, only for the dim-witted seraph to resurrect every corpse in the local cemetery.

The seaside village soon finds its Christmas Eve chapel party besieged by shambling, brain-hungry undead demanding Swedish flat-pack furniture. The townspeople discover unlikely heroes in a pot-smoking local constable and his broadsword-wielding former B-movie wife.

'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.

• Dark Comedy: Roberto the fruit bat wears Ray-Ban sunglasses and rides shotgun.
• Small Town Setting: Pine Cove's seaside community contends with gale-force coastal weather, a blunt saloon keeper brandishing a miniature baseball bat, and dark secrets unearthed from the town cemetery.
• Quirky Characters: A neurotic biologist attempts to cure his broken heart through rodent psychology.
• Also by This Author: Lamb, Dirty Job and Secondhand Souls.