Series: Witches

The novel exudes the curious feel of old-fashioned vampire and Frankenstein legends. . . . Pratchett lampoons everything from Christian superstition to Swiss Army knives here, proving that the fantasy satire of Discworld 'still ate'nt dead.' -- Publishers Weekly An invasion of fashionable blood-sucking vampyres are no match for the wacky wands and zany spells of a coven of rural...

"His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction."—Mail on Sunday (UK) An invasion of elves threatens to disrupt a perfectly dreamy Midsummer Night in the Discworld—and throws the world of the witches into chaos in this cheeky tale from internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett. On an incandescent Midsummer Night in the Kingdom...

Superb. --Washington Post Book World A cauldron of fun is brewing when a trio of the Discworld's witches, led by the delightfully iconoclastic Granny Weatherwax, turn their wands to royal politics in internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's brilliant satire that echoes some of William Shakespeare's best-loved works. Three witches on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne...