Eric - Terry Pratchett

It is a hot afternoon in late summer in Ankh Morpork and something is not right. The librarian at Unseen University (the Discworlds premier college of wizardry) can feel it and, when footsteps suddenly come out of nowhere and race across the floor accompanied by a distant scream, he can hear it as well. In fact all through the town strange things are happening. Usually it’s a fairly safe bet to blame the wizards for any strange events but this time they are not the cause. In order to find out just what is going on they summon Death who, of course, knows everything. Meanwhile Eric Thursley, the Discworlds most accomplished* demonologist, is ...

Eric is one of the earlier Discworld novels (8th in the sequence, in fact), and deals with the trials and tribulations of an adolescent Demonologist. He tries to perform a tricky demon-summoning rite and ends up with... well, not exactly a demon as such... For those uninitiated into the world of Discworld, it's Terry Pratchett's comedic fantasy fiction creation, inhabited by Wiazards, Witches, trolls, dwarves, zombies, and all manner of fantastical creatures. Oh and humans of course. The characters on the disc try to make sense of what's going on around them, managing (usually quite by accident) to actually do so on rare occasions. But the Disc, despite many ...

Eric was only the 2nd of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels to enter into my world; I came across the series entirely by accident and became unshakeably hooked on the magical world of olde timey fantasy he creates. Following my experience with "Mort" I simply had to get hold of more of Pratchett's books and, being published by Gollancz rather than Corgi, the usual publisher of his books and therefore a little cheaper, I bought Eric. The Plot: --------- For those of you that know Faust by Goethe, the story of a demonologist who gets a little more than he bargained for, you will not be surprised to find a lot of similarities in this ...