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A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats...tourism .Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1999. A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones. In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy cliches - Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons etc. The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem being 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 proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness. But can failing at everything lead to a win this time? ** Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and Shona and a remarkable cast of wizards, soldiers, kings

Who reads The dark lord of Derkholm?

Author

Jones, Diana Wynne

Publisher

Gollancz

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780688160043

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Young Adult, Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (178 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14