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A Nameless Witch
An undead witch has to hide her beauty beneath a crone’s disguise to look right for her profession. When goblings threaten Fort Stalwart, she joins a White Knight on a quest to stop the sorcerer behind them. Her companions include a troll and a dangerous duck.
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What makes it funny?
The wizard who cursed her family has lost his name to history, so the witch calls him Nasty Larry. Her mentor treats beauty as a serious obstacle to witchcraft and devotes months to teaching her how to look worse.
The comedy at work
The narrator considers curses and witchly dress with the calm practicality of someone learning a trade. That dry voice gives familiar fantasy rules an awkward question to answer, starting with why a witch should need an ugly disguise.
Try this if…
A taste for dry narration and macabre romance will help with this fantasy quest, whose companions include a wisecracking killer duck.
Good to know
The heroine’s appetite for human flesh complicates the romance. Cannibalism is part of the setup.
A few distinguishing details
- Beauty as a witch’s professional handicap
- A wisecracking killer duck
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Sources & further reading
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