Xanth · Book 6
Night Mare
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 307
- ISBN-13
- 9780808522102
- Type
- novel
About this book
Following Ogre, Ogre, Night Mare came out in 1983 as Xanth book 6, another self-contained trip through Piers Anthony's magical peninsula where a character's talent, once discovered, tends to shape the whole quest. It runs 307 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Night Mare is book 6 in the Xanth series. It follows Ogre, Ogre. It is followed by Dragon on a Pedestal. 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 9780808522102