Skeleton Key
- Published
- 1 January 2021
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN-13
- 9781504060301
- Type
- novel
About this book
The 44th Xanth novel, Skeleton Key appeared in 2021, continuing Piers Anthony's saga of the Human Being lineage and their neighbors navigating magic talents, quests, and the barrier that separates Xanth from mundane Mundania. It runs 310 pages.
Key facts about Skeleton Key
Skeleton Key is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 2021. It runs to 310 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Skeleton Key. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781504060301 to find the main one.
Skeleton Key is book 44 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
Skeleton Key is book 44 in the Xanth series. It follows Jest Right. It is followed by A Tryst of Fate. 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 9781504060301