Carpe Jugulum
core novel 1998 Discworld
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (69,515 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 296 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780385409926 |
Synopsis
Count Magpyr and his family of modernizing vampires are invited to Lancre for the naming ceremony of King Verence and Magrat's infant daughter, and once there, the Count makes clear that his family intends to take the castle and the kingdom for themselves. Using a refined, near-irresistible form of hypnotic influence, the Magpyrs quickly win over most of Lancre's people, who accept the coming takeover with unsettling calm. Only a handful of people, notably the young witch Agnes Nitt and a newly ordained and uncertain priest named Mightily Oats, prove able to resist the vampires' mental hold, while Granny Weatherwax, offended at having been left off the christening's guest list, has withdrawn from Lancre's affairs entirely.
Where it sits
- Universe: Discworld
- Series: Witches core; position 6 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Terry Pratchett
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Witches: position 6 of 6: previous Maskerade (1995)
Sources
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