The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (Mammoth Book of) (Mammoth Books)

by Mike Ashley (Author), Mike Ashley (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $7.44

  Brilliant new collection of comic fantasy masterpieces This dazzling new collection of off-the-wall fantasies features stories from the minds of the funniest writers in the field, including Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, Paul di Filippo. Adam Roberts and Molly Brown. Here are 35 stories guaranteed to reassure us that the next-door world will be just as mad as this one. It includes a mix of brand-new stories and rare finds or forgotten gems, with a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humour. From the missionary plunged into the bizarre initiation rituals of a lost tribe to the bloke who thought magic would help his love life, from a wizard allergic to magic who sneezes his way into chaos to a man who finds his shoes have taken over control of his life, The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy unfalteringly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem. A welcome new shot of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $4.17

  From a wizard allergic to magic to a psychotic Father Christmas, from talking machines to yodelling toilets, from a computer salesman in fairyland to a vampire football match, this anthology turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem.