"Christmas with the Dead" is a short story about a zombie apocalypse by author Joe R. Lansdale.

[citation needed] The story is about a man named Calvin who is determined to celebrate Christmas despite being the only human left in a town inhabited by zombies.

Calvin is the lone survivor of a zombie apocalypse in the East Texas town of Mud Creek.

He has converted his home into a fortress and is lonely and bored since a freak lightning storm turned his wife and daughter and everyone else in town into zombies some two years ago.

So he decides to celebrate Christmas and ventures out to gather decorations.