Dark Lord of Derkholm - Diana Wynne Jones

Once a year Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties travel to another world for the chance to experience a real-life Fantasy Land: complete with Dark Lord, dragons, and epic battles between the armies of good and evil.

But the tourist trade is devastating the world and its people. They're ready to fight back...and maybe, if they completely ruin this year's tours, no one will ever want to visit again.

To do that they will need to appoint the most incompetent wizard they know to be the new Dark Lord. Unfortunately for Derk, that's him...

509 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1998

360g