The auditors of Discworld have arranged to replace the Hogfather, a jolly man in a red suit who delivers toys to all the children on Hogswatchnight, with an impostor who carries a scythe along with his bag of toys.
Thirteen-year-old Eric and Rincewood the wizard have many adventures trying to escape from the equally horrifying and ludicrous beings and places of the magical Dungeon Dimension.
Brutha is a novice who is content with growing melons for the temple monks until the great god, Om, manifests himself in the form of a tortoise and announces that Brutha is to become the chosen one.
Trouble begins to brew in the tiny kingdom of Lancre when Granny Weatherwax and her spell sisters, disturbed during their monthly cauldron-stirring by murder, mayhem, and a royal birth, give the new prince away to a passing theatrical troupe.
Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary, solves the mystery of an attempted assassination and a theft that leads to a chase from the halls of Discworld royalty to the fat mines of Uberwald.
King Verence unwittingly invites trouble when he opens the doors of the castle to Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, to celebrate the birth of his daughter.
While Archchancellor Ridcully, at the request of benevolent tyrant Lord Ventinari, attempts to assemble a capable football team from the unathletic rabble at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University, handsome yet lazy Trev falls for dim yet pretty kitchen maid Juliet.
