It's that time of year again—the holiday season. Between checkout lines a mile long, the office party hangover, battles with traffic, and delayed flights, what's better to do than to listen to The Worst Noel and laugh your holiday aggravation away?
The collection features an eclectic mix of writers with playful, often dark humor as the conmon thread.
Donner Is Dead - Cynthia Kaplan
Blue Christmas: The Tour - John Marchese
Eight - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
That's Just About Enough Figgy Pudding, Actually - Catherine Newman
Birthdays - Ann Patchett
The Accidental Santa - Joni Rodgers
Christmas 2001 - Anne Giardini
'Twas the Bite Before Christmas - Stanley Bing
Survivor - Louis Bayard
I'll Have Christmas with the Works on Rye, Hold the Ham and Jesus - Valerie Frankel
Christmas in Paris - Mike Albo
We Really Must Get Together This Year - Marian Keyes, read by Katrina Keyes
The Gift of the Magi Redux - Binnie Kirshenhaum
A Foreign Country - Mitchell Symons
The Jew Who Cooked a Ham for Christmas - Neal Pollack
Rum Balls - Roger Director
Buy Humbug - Cintra Wilson
The Gift That Did Not Need Wrapping - Elizabeth Noble
