Geis of the Gargoyle
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780812534856
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1995, Geis of the Gargoyle follows Harpy Thyme in the Xanth sequence, another entry in Piers Anthony's decades-spanning comic fantasy where every character's magic talent drives the plot and the title itself is a pun. It runs 352 pages.
Key facts about Geis of the Gargoyle
Piers Anthony wrote Geis of the Gargoyle, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1995. The book has 352 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780812534856 to find the main one.
Geis of the Gargoyle is book 18 of 49 in the Xanth series. The series has 48 published books. However, the series starts with A Spell for Chameleon (1977).
Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Battle Circle, Of Man and Manta and Jason Striker, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, action thriller and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Three Novel Nymphs is the latest published Piers Anthony book on file, from 2025.
About Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony is a prolific British-born American author best known for Xanth, his long-running comic fantasy series built around magical puns and wordplay, which has run to more than forty novels since 1977. See every Piers Anthony book in order.
Its place in Xanth
Geis of the Gargoyle is book 18 in the Xanth series. It follows Harpy Thyme. It is followed by Roc and a Hard Place. See the full Xanth reading order.
Xanth is a magical peninsula shaped like Florida, separated from the mundane, non-magical world (Mundania) by a barrier only a few can cross. Every native-born Xanthian has a unique magic talent, discovered around adolescence — anything from summoning storms to turning objects invisible to producing terrible puns out of thin air — and a great deal of the series' plot turns on characters discovering, hiding, or weaponizing their talents. Xanth's landscape is riddled with elemental spirits, centaurs, ogres…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812534856