Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side.
There're the witches – young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble.
And the vampires are intelligent – not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?"
They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future.
Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but wishes he had an axe.
The series
The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, soldiers, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld, there are many individual stories which can be enjoyed in any order. But reading them in the sequence in which they were written can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.
#1 · 1983The Colour of Magic 
#2 · 1986The Light Fantastic 
#3 · 1987Equal Rites 
#4 · 1987Mort 
#5 · 1988Sourcery 
#6 · 1988Wyrd Sisters 
#7 · 1989Pyramids 
#8 · 1989Guards! Guards! 
#9 · 1990Eric 
#10 · 1990Moving Pictures 
#11 · 1991Reaper Man 
#12 · 1991Witches Abroad 
#13 · 1992Small Gods 
#14 · 1992Lords and Ladies 
#15 · 1993Men at Arms 
#16 · 1994Soul Music 
#17 · 1994Interesting Times 
#18 · 1995Maskerade 
#19 · 1996Feet of Clay 
#20 · 1996Hogfather 
#21 · 1997Jingo 
#22 · 1998The Last Continent 
#23 · 1998Carpe Jugulum 
#24 · 1999The Fifth Elephant 
#25 · 2000The Truth 
#26 · 2001Thief of Time 
#27 · 2002Night Watch 
#28 · 2003Monstrous Regiment 
#29 · 2004Going Postal 
#30 · 2005Thud! 
#31 · 2007Making Money 
#32 · 2009Unseen Academicals 
#33 · 2011Snuff 
#34 · 2013Raising Steam 
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