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When there appears to be no hope; when all around you are screaming like lost souls, and every spell you try fails to work; when it appears that chaos and evil will at last triumph over good—then, it is truly time for a vacation.
—from the teachings of ebenezum, Volume XXXV
“Gardner has a fine sense of just when to deflate an apparent threat into slapstick.”
“There are few fantasy writers possessing anything approaching genuine wit. Craig Shaw Gardner is one of them.”
—Marvin Kaye, author of The Amorous Umbrella
“The field needs more humorists of this caliber.”
—Robert Asprin, author of the MYTH series
Don’t miss the first volumes of
by Craig Shaw Gardner:
A MULTITUDE OF MONSTERS
Ace Books by Craig Shaw Gardner
A MULTITUDE OF MONSTERS
A NIGHT IN THE NETHERHELLS
DISAGREEMENT WITH DEATH
(coming in February 1989)
This book is an Ace original edition, and has never been previously published.
A NIGHT IN THE NETHERHELLS
An Ace Book/published by arrangement with the author
Ace edition / June 1987
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1987 by Craig Shaw Gardner.
Cover art by Walter Velez.
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