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Rincewind is dragged to Hell itself, where a bored teenage demon king wants someone to show him a good time.
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Fool
King Lear retold by Pocket, the king's fool: bawdy, irreverent and, under all the jokes, surprisingly tender.
Good Omens
An angel and a demon who've grown rather fond of Earth conspire to prevent the Apocalypse, in a comedy about the end of the world.
Assistant to the Villain
Evie Sage needs a job to support her family, so when she lands a position as assistant to the Villain, the kingdom of Rennedawn's most feared man, she tries to treat it like any office job, despite the dungeons and her very attractive boss.
A Dirty Job
Charlie Asher, a mild secondhand-store owner in San Francisco, becomes a widower and a single father on the same day, then discovers he has been drafted as a collector of souls.
The Princess Bride
A father reads his son the 'good parts' of an imaginary Florinese classic, and the framing and the fencing and the Sicilian and the six-fingered man turn out to be the most quoted comic fantasy in English.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and a bewildered Englishman hitchhikes across the galaxy with a depressed robot and a two-headed president.
Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton's hit web comic collected: short historical and literary gags that send up the Brontës, Napoleon and Canadian prime ministers with equal affection.
Cold Comfort Farm
Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen and practical to a fault, goes to live with her doom-laden relatives the Starkadders at their farm in Sussex, and sets about putting everyone's life in order.
Saint Death's Daughter
Lanie Stones, the youngest of a family of assassins and a necromancer who is allergic to violence, is left alone with the family's debts when her parents are murdered, and her sister comes home to settle them.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
Sorcery of Thorns
Elisabeth Scrivener, an orphan raised in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, where grimoires can turn into monsters, is blamed for a deadly act of sabotage and must trust the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon servant to clear her name.
For Whom the Belle Tolls
After dying young of cancer she chose not to treat so her family would not be buried in debt, Lily finds paradise unbearably dull, takes herself to Hell on her own terms, opens a customer-service desk for the damned and catches the eye of Beleth, a seven-foot demon prince.