The Night Colt has one ambition: to deliver dreams to the deserving. Unfortunately, only Night Mares can take on this task, and the Colt has no hope of leading his own herd if he can't get any practice. So he's struck a deal with a Mundane. During the hours when the Night Mares rest --dusk and dawn --the duo plants stories in the air, compelling the people of Xanth to enact them --whether they want to or not. Unwilling to participate in these fantasies,...

There’s no shortage of laughs when Jess is around; she’s been cursed to have nobody take her seriously. But her dubious talent comes in handy when she meets the very handsome showman Magnus. He promises to fake taking her seriously—if Jess joins his traveling show. But first they must see the Good Magician. He will give them the use of the flying Fire Boat to tour the realm if they complete a quest. The only problem is, he can’t remember...

Following instructions left by the planet's leaders, Nepe and Flash join forces with the enemy. Magic has shown them that a Hectare spy will lead their side to victory--if they can convert him to their cause.

Gloha, the offspring of a chance mating between a goblin and a harpy, is the only creature of her kind in the wide, wonderful Land of Xanth. Accompanied by Cynthia the Centauress, Amanda the Griffon-girl, Graeboe the Invisible giant, and Trent the Magician, Gloha must face many dangers on a perilous quest for truth, friendship, and happiness.

Gary Gar is the guardian of the river Swan Knee which flows to Xanth. Now the river is polluted and beginning to dry up. Gary goes to see the Good Magician Humfrey, who sends him on a quest-to transform himself into human shape, tutor a child with more than her share of wild magical talents, and find a philter which can restore the river to its pristine state

Harvard scientist Nathan Smallwood leads an expedition to capture a giant sea spider which is killing fishermen off Newfoundland. The spider was genetically engineered by a woman biologist to punish people for polluting the sea.

Stile, a serf on Proton, escapes death by the aid of Sheen, his robot lady, who shows him the way of escape to the magic world of Phaze, where he again finds his life endangered.

Mach sometimes dreams about Phaze where magic abounds when things seem hard in his logical world, Proton. One day he awakes in Phase to discover that he has changed places with Bane, a resident of Phase.

Sequel to Split Infinity. Shuttling from a world of future science where he is a serf to a world of magic where he is the alternate of a master of magic, Stile must find the unknown enemies who wish to murder him.

In twelfth-century France, Parry grows into a powerful sorcerer and then a powerful Inquisitor. Living in depravity, he ends his days at the gates of hell.