This book is dedicated to Mike Spradlin who said: "You know, you oughtta write a Christmas book." To which I replied: "What kind of Christmas book?" To which he replied: "I don't know. Maybe Christmas in Pine Cove or something." To which I replied: "'Kay"

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Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.

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This work is Christopher Moore's "enhanced" Version 2.0 of The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (ISBN No. 0060842350), published in the U.S. as a hardcover with red dust jacket by William Morrow, NY (2005), which includes a short story that doesn't appear in the original edition.

The original edition (ISBN No. 0060590254), published in the U.S. as a hardcover with pale yellow dust jacket by William Morrow, NY (2004), contains only the original novel.

The Kindle edition (ISBN 1841496189; 2009) contains "Bonus Material" from Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art.

Please do not combine these various editions having different content.

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