The Stupidest Angel

"The Stupidest Angel" by Christopher Moore is a Christmas tale featuring zombies. A rather stupid angel comes down to earth to perform a Christmas miracle: he must grant the wish of a child that could only come true with divine intervention. He finds a young boy who just witnessed the murder of a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit and tells the angel he wants Santa brought back to life. The angel accidentally sets loose a whole graveyard of the undead, zombies with a taste for brains, on the town's Christmas Eve party. There are some rather hilarious moments, but for the most part the characters are entirely too ridiculous for ever me to suspend disbelief, and I read Larry McMurtry! In the end it was funny but not something I'd add to my favorites list.