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Castle Roogna

Castle Roogna
Castle Roogna-Piers Anthony.jpg
Author Piers Anthony
Cover artist Darrell K. Sweet
Country United States
Language English
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Del Rey Books
Publication date
July 1979
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 329 (paperback 22nd printing)
ISBN
OCLC 27954084
Preceded by The Source of Magic
Followed by Centaur Aisle

Castle Roogna is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the third book of the Xanth series. The castle itself is also the residence of the present King of Xanth.

Dor, son of Bink, is a 12-year-old magician and next in line to inherit the throne of Xanth. To teach him the skills he will need to rule the kingdom, King Trent sends him through the tapestry on a mission 800 years into Xanth's past to find the ancient and mysterious Zombie Master. Dor travels to the past via the magic tapestry of Castle Roogna and inhabits the body of an invading mundane barbarian. While in the past Dor is accompanied by a (not normally) giant spider named Jumper, who had been drawn into the tapestry with him, and meets his current governess Millie the ghost, a short time before her unfortunate demise. Dor must use his magic and every other resource he possesses to help beat back an invading wave of mundanes and find a way to restore Millie's zombie lover to life back in the present.Turns out the Zombie Master is Millies zombie lover and ends up providing the cure for his own curse.


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