“Donner Is Dead” copyright © 2005 by Cynthia Kaplan.
“Blue Christmas: The Tour” copyright © 2005 by John Marchese.
“Eight” copyright © 2005 by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
“That’s Just About Enough Figgy Pudding, Actually” copyright © 2005 by Catherine Newman.
“Birthdays” copyright © 2005 by Ann Patchett.
“The Accidental Santa” copyright © 2005 by Joni Rodgers.
“Christmas 2001” copyright © 2005 by Anne Giardini.
“The Bite Before Christmas” copyright © 2005 by Stanley Bing.
“Survivor” copyright © 2005 by Louis Bayard.
“I’ll Have Christmas with the Works on Rye, Hold the Ham and Jesus” copyright© 2005 by Valerie Frankel.
“Christmas in Paris” copyright © 2005 by Mike Albo.
“We Really Must Get Together This Year” copyright © 2005 by Marian Keyes.
“The Gift of the Magi Redux” copyright © 2005 by Binnie Kirshenbaum.
“A Foreign Country” copyright © 2005 by Mitchell Symons.
“The Jew Who Cooked a Ham for Christmas” copyright © 2005 by Neal Pollack.
“Rum Balls” copyright © 2005 by Roger Director.
“Buy Humbug” copyright © 2005 by Cintra Wilson.
“The Gift That Did Not Need Wrapping” copyright © 2005 by Elizabeth Noble.
EPub Edition © OCTOBER 2005 ISBN: 9780061871191
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The worst Noel : hellish holiday tales.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-10: 0-06-083811-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-083811-9
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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