![]() But, Joseph? if you don’t put that pitchfork down, I’m going to take it from you and stab you to death in front of your wife and child. This is a novel in which the hero, an unrepentant thief seeking refuge in a stable, introduces himself and his accomplices as follows: “Joseph? Mary? My name is Balthazar. Those with weak constitutions and lofty literary standards be warned: Grahame-Smith has forsaken neither graphic gore nor gleeful historical and religious revisionism. I approached the novel with all the enthusiasm of a Skid Row habitue entering a Salvation Army meeting. So here is Grahame-Smith’s new novel, “ Unholy Night,” which purports to give us the hitherto untold history of - wait for it - the Nativity of Jesus Christ, the Three Wise Men, Herod’s Slaughter of the Innocents and the Holy Family’s Flight into Egypt: a New Testament knee-slapper if ever there was one. ![]() At least that counts for wit if you’re still splitting your sides over the author’s tyro bestseller, “ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” All of the wit in Seth Grahame-Smith’s previous mash-up - the turgid, entrail-splattered “ Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” - could be found in its title. ![]()
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