Description
In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy clichés — Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons, etc.
The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem is the ruthless tour-master and his all-powerful demons. To save them all, the incompetent wizard Derk is appointed as Dark Lord in the hope that he will ruin the tours, and sure enough he proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness. But can failing at everything lead to a win this time?
A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats… tourism. A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones.
Endorsements
Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 1999.